Testimony of Healing October 13, 1923 Issue

I think I might safely say that I turned to Christian Science...

Howard Payne

I think I might safely say that I turned to Christian Science on the New Year evening of the year 1914. It was while standing on the porch of the hall at a New Year dance that a great desire came to me to live aright. I was alone at the time, and I resolved to give my life for the uplift and enlightenment of my fellow-men. At the time I did not know where or how; I only knew that I was going to search for something that would enable me to do good to humanity. For seven or eight weeks I searched but found nothing. I looked at the Bible, and thought if only I could find a religion that did the healing work as Jesus commanded, I would believe in that religion.

About the end of February my desire was fulfilled, and I knew I had found that for which I was yearning. At that time my sister was wonderfully helped through the application of Christian Science. Upon my mother's return after being with her, she brought a copy of The Christian Science Journal. At that time I was suffering from chronic indigestion and rheumatism. I had not spent an hour reading the Journal before I knew Christian Science was what I was yearning for. I resolved to go to a practitioner and ask for treatment. It was a week before I went to one, and during that time I gave up my physical culture exercises and all material remedies. When I retired at night, after reading the Journal, there would come to me a great conviction that I was going to be healed. I can gratefully say that in one treatment I was healed. The practitioner told me to go home and eat whatever I wished. I did so, and have enjoyed good health ever since. I have never regretted listening to the "still small voice;" for had I not listened, I might not have found Christian Science

I wish to tell of a demonstration I experienced shortly after becoming interested in Christian Science. When I began the study of this great truth, I lived between four and five miles from the nearest Christian Science church. I studied the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for about nine months before going to church, except once. I then began to see that it was only the argument of error that was telling me it was too far to walk; and I began to walk to church. One Wednesday, about three months later, I had a severe test. I had been working hard all day at new work, and when I arrived home that evening I was so weary I could hardly speak. The argument came, Should I or should I not attempt to walk that long distance to church? I had long hills and a bad, muddy road to go over. After a few moments of earnest meditation I telephoned to a practitioner and asked her to help me rise above the sense of fatigue. I started to church. When I arrived in town it began to rain, and I ran most of the way up a long hill to the church without experiencing any sense of weariness. I walked home that night, and upon arriving I felt perfectly normal. For three years I walked the distance of between nine and ten miles to church and back. In that time I walked nearly three thousand miles, and spent between seven and eight hundred hours in going to church. When I would read in our periodicals of some one who had made a similar demonstration, it always gave me great encouragement to push on I trust that this testimony will prove an encouragement to some one who has a considerable distance to go.

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