Testimonies of Healing

I am only one of the unnumbered thousands to glorify our Father Mother, God, to give honor and praise to our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, and love and reverence to our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for the understanding of Christian Science, the Science which teaches us God's relation to man and the whole universe. I have been able to prove many times how false is the belief in a power apart from God, and to rise above insomnia, depression, extreme sensitiveness, constant coughs and colds, financial reverses and, with the loving help of a practitioner, even the shadow of death itself.

I am very grateful to testify to the healing power of Christian Science, as it has supplied my every need, physical and otherwise, since I was born. Some years ago, during an influenza epidemic, I was healed of double pneumonia.

It is five years since I first read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, but it is only during the past three years that I have kept to Christian Science teaching alone. Since the taking of this step my advance has been marked, and I am deeply grateful for the increased understanding and the new life that have opened up for me.

I wish to express my gratitude for Christian Science. When I first began this study, twelve years ago, my thoughts were full of criticism against Christian Science, although I knew nothing about it, except through hearsay.

When over thirteen years ago I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to help another, I had no thought of healing for myself, as I had always enjoyed very good physical health; but I have had many healings when I needed them, and for the peace of mind, the changed outlook on life, due to a higher mental standpoint, and for a new happiness, I am increasingly grateful. Early in my study of the truth I was healed of constipation after using artificial means for fourteen years.

I treasure the memory of that glorious day when Christian Science first came to me. My family was in a state of despondency over financial troubles, my mother's poor health, and other discordant conditions.

Christian Science came to me gradually, and through its very reasonableness. I did not seek it at first for physical healing for myself, but the physical healing of others, and particularly that of a member of my immediate family, attracted my attention to the subject.

An awakened sense of the help and the encouragement which the testimonies in our periodicals have brought to me leads me to add my expression of gratitude for the transformation that Christian Science has brought into my life. As a child I was always delicate, and even when not suffering from some particular ailment had never enjoyed the freedom and vitality natural to childhood.

I first turned to Christian Science with much uncertainty as to what it was; but when I left the practitioner's office after my first treatment and purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was assured that I would understand. Like many another, after reading the chapter on Prayer I knew I had found what I wanted and needed, and began to appreciate this great revelation of God to man.

For a great number of years I have enjoyed the help and protection of Christian Science as my only physician in sickness, and as my guide through many troubled phases of life. My first healing, that of asthma, came entirely as a result of reading and studying the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.