Testimony of Healing October 1, 1938 Issue

Through excessive work and worry, while living in...

John G. Burton

Through excessive work and worry, while living in Florida in the early eighties, I fell a victim to typhoid fever, which came near ending my earthly existence, and which resulted in great weakness and nervousness. The efforts of physicians and all material means failed to heal me; I was in the slough of despondency and almost bereft of hope.

I was a member of a church, and loved and practiced its teachings. When all material remedies failed, I turned more earnestly to the study of the Bible, and pondered deeply the teachings and demonstrations of Jesus, who declared that the works which he did, his followers should do also. I believed that this declaration applied to all people in all ages. I believed in divine healing, but did not understand its Principle, and prayed earnestly for light.

A pamphlet had fallen into my hands, edited and published by a man in Tennessee, who claimed to have been healed by divine power. With the hope that he could give me light on the teachings and healings of Christ Jesus, we decided to go to Tennessee. Again I met with disappointment, and again resorted to physicians and medicine, but with little confidence or hope. The efforts of the physicians were futile, and I was given to understand that they could do nothing more for me. Discouraged and despondent, I still thought that divine healing was possible, here and now, if we could only exercise sufficient faith. At this milepost in my journey from sense to Soul, I found again that man's extremity was indeed God's opportunity. A friend, who knew of my belief in divine healing told me of the healing of an acquaintance of his, the nature of which he did not understand. I suggested that it was hypnotism. He did not think so, and said that when he visited his patients the man carried some books, one of which was the Bible. I saw the man and found that he was a Christian Science practitioner, and it was from him I first heard of Christian Science.

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