Testimony of Healing May 11, 1974 Issue

My earliest memories of Christian Science involve the family's...

William C. Gans with contributions from Carl Gans, John M. Glen

My earliest memories of Christian Science involve the family's trip to Sunday School each week, twenty-eight miles over bad roads from our home in a rural area of Pennsylvania. In winter when roads became impassable, my parents would hold Sunday School at home. We were taught from earliest childhood the truth of God, who is our only physician and the ever-present living Principle, Mind, and of ourselves as God's perfect image and likeness.

My father was a medical doctor with a large successful urban and rural practice, yet he was the one who first introduced Christian Science to our family. His enthusiasm for the truth was boundless. He was introduced to Science by the chance finding of a copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy in an abandoned bureau drawer. He was instantaneously healed of a serious mastoid infection shortly thereafter with the aid of a Christian Science practitioner.

Two healings during my childhood stand out in my memory. One was the recovery of the use of an eye that had been penetrated by a sharp stick; the other was the healing of what had been diagnosed as a broken vertebra in my neck. Both of these healings reversed the results pronounced by the medical profession based on medical examinations and X rays required at the time. In both cases there was complete reliance on Christian Science, and the healings, with the help of a Christian Science practitioner, were complete in less than a week. In the case of the neck injury, instead of serving a five-to-ten-year sentence confined in a neck cast as predicted by the school physician, I returned in six days to a full sports program of basketball, wrestling, and skiing.

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