Testimony of Healing November 1, 1900 Issue

An All-important Question Answered

Conrad S. Culver

Christian Science came to my notice in an hour of sorest need when all else seemed to have failed. Physically I was nearly whole; mentally, distressed; spiritually, famished. The one paramount question for years had been, "What is life?" Early taught by Christian parents to love and respect the teachings of the Bible as the word of God, at about eighteen years of age I united with the Baptist Church. But there came a time when I reached a turn in the road, or what at times seemed its very end. There was one passage of Scripture to which I clung when nearly everything else seemed to fail. It was this from our Master's parable of the Good Shepherd, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

Manifestly this was the solution to the problem, "What is life?" but how could it be reduced to every-day experience, how made practical?

At this point Christian Science was revealed to me. It needed but little investigation to satisfy me that it was the Truth. Unquestionably those known as Christian Scientists were in possession of something of which I was in great need. I love to recall how I drank long and refreshingly at the fount of divine Love. And on the other hand, what an awful task seemed to await one in overcoming sufficiently to be creditably known as a Christian Scientist.

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