Testimony of Healing January 29, 1916 Issue

I was considered a delicate child, since I had stomach trouble...

Joseph C. De Witt with contributions from Margaret Johnson

I was considered a delicate child, since I had stomach trouble and was very susceptible to disease. My parents despaired of ever raising me to manhood, and the doctor was a frequent visitor at our house. When I was sixteen years old Christian Science was introduced into our home, and it sounded reasonable to me, so I accepted its teachings as the truth. It was while confined to my bed with scarlet fever that I gave up my faith in material remedies forever. The medicine was thrown away, and I speedily recovered while my mother read in Science and Health and applied her slight understanding of Christian Science to my case. That was eight years ago. I have not taken or had cause to take medicine since, and am now in perfect health. Several years ago my business required me to take a physical examination, and the physician in his report said that I was as nearly normal as any man he had ever examined.

Later I was cured of the tobacco habit, both chewing and smoking, of the growing habit of drinking intoxicating liquors, of profanity, as well as of other vices which go with such habits. Four years ago I took up the study of Christian Science in earnest, and since then I have witnessed many healings and have been enabled to relieve others who have applied to me for help. I am learning that only love, purity, truth, and good can profit me, and that envy, self-seeking, resentment, self-righteousness, and all manifestations of hate and error, are but dreams of the counterfeit senses, and these disappear as the true spiritual consciousness is established within us. This teaching has lifted me physically, morally, and mentally so far above what I was when it first came to my notice, that I would be ungrateful did I not place an account of my experience where some one hungering for health and greater peace can see it.

My gratitude to Mrs. Eddy, and to the earnest workers in Christian Science who are unselfishly devoted to the cause of humanity, must be shown in my daily efforts to do likewise.

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