Testimony of Healing October 11, 1900 Issue

Benefits Received from the Study of Science and Health

G. Allan

It is just three years since I first heard of Christian Science. From 1888 to 1897 my health had been very poor. During this time I had been searching for a religion more in harmony with my view of the teachings of the New Testament than the religion of my birth, and had with theis end in view investigated the creeds and tenets of many churches, sects, and religious societies. In pursuing this search I borrowed, in August, 1897, a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." In October, I bought a copy and began studying it in connection with the Bible. While studying it, my health gradually but certainly improved; attacks of inflammation of the lungs, bronchitis, and catarrh, to which I had been subject every winter, ceased, and have never returned.

Having spent some time in the study of pharmacy and materia medica, you may imagine with what surprise I read in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, p. 443, "The perusal of the author's publications heals sickness constantly." I had been taught by years of schooling that drugs were man's God-appointed healing and curative agents. Although doctors and drugs had failed to restore me to health, and although I had seen that medicine as practised was in no sense scientific, yet my faith in material means had not been destroyed, for I still believed that there was some thing (perhaps as yet undiscovered) possessing the necessary therapeutic properties to effect a cure.

Three years' immunity from such diseases tends to prove that the proper remedy has been applied. This remedy, applied understandingly, has healed and will heal these diseases in others as certainly as it has in me. It has healed and will heal all other diseases as surely as it has these.

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