Testimony of Healing May 18, 1899 Issue

Convinced by Demonstration

James E. Patton, Jr.

Dear Sentinel:—Although I had seen the great benefit one dear to me had received through Christian Science, it seemed as though there was nothing tangible in it.

I gradually began to understand the logic of its teachings, but only as an intellectual statement. I never dreamed of its possibilities until after my first demonstration, and then I remembered the dear Mother's thought, "Truth is demonstrable, when understood, and that it is not understood until demonstrated."

This was the demonstration. I was taking a trip with my family to the Pacific coast. Between traveling at night and sight-seeing during the day, the trip, to mortal sense, was a hard one. The fifth day was exceedingly hot and sultry, and our little girl was suddenly prostrated. It seemed perfectly clear to me then that a good God never caused that. I realized for the first time the absolute nothingness of the mortal law under which the child had apparently come, and the love and omnipotence of the ever-present Good.

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