Testimonies of Healing

A feeling of deep gratitude to God prompts me to testify to the many blessings I have received in Christian Science. For the past sixteen years Christian Science has been my only physician.

I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, having always been quite well; but the character of a mother and her daughter whom I had in my business for a while interested me very much, and I thought, If Christian Science makes this kind of people, I want to know something about it. By taking every opportunity to ask questions about it of those who were interested, I soon learned to study by myself, and it was not long before my daughter and I joined a local church and also The Mother Church.

After studying Christian Science for nine years, and enjoying the beautiful testimonies of other students, I feel it is my duty and very great privilege to make a contribution. Many healings have been experienced, but I shall give only a few.

My first healing in Christian Science was of a paralytic condition of the bowels, for which I had tried many remedies recommended by physicians, but had received only temporary relief. An article from a Christian Science Sentinel so impressed me that I eagerly questioned a friend in regard to the teachings of Christian Science.

With heartfelt thanks I send this testimony of the healing power of Christian Science. My work is dancing, and I have been wonderfully helped through Christian Science in the fulfilling of engagements.

It is now nearly four years ago that, after undergoing several operations, I was given up by the doctors, Who told my parents I had at most six months more to live. As I was not able to eat or drink anything, I was fed artificially.

In June, 1927, it seemed as if I were doomed to invalidism, and might become permanently mentally unbalanced, so many types of sickness held me in bondage. I had been considered delicate since childhood, and had been a great sufferer from headaches, from which I had gained only temporary relief through the use of narcotics or opiates—administered by well-meaning medical doctors.

I thank our dear Father-Mother God from the bottom of my heart that He led me to Christian Science, and that I found true the words, "When the need is greatest, God's help is nearest. " Our parents brought us up in a pious way and taught us of the power and goodness of God.

Since taking up the study of Christian Science I have had many wonderful demonstrations of the healing power of divine Love. Before I first heard of this beautiful truth I was suffering from a very serious bowel trouble for which I had been operated upon; but the operation was useless, for after twelve months' treatment the doctors informed me the disease was incurable, and that they could do no more for me.

In March, 1929, my mother asked me to bring her two books from the public library. The titles she gave me were somewhat vague, but I was able to obtain the right books: they were the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy" by Sibyl Wilbur.