Testimony of Healing December 6, 1900 Issue

Healed Physically and Saved from Infidelity

Robert Calvin Humphrey

Two and a half years ago, Christian Science came to me, when my way was so hedged about that I could not get out. I had been a great sufferer from physical ills. I had exhausted all remedies known to the local medical skill, including, electricity in all its forms, but with all this I was "nothing bettered, but rather grew worse." I was hungering for Truth, yet I was comparatively an infidel. My suffering had been of such a nature that there seemed but little hope for me; I was merely drifting along aimlessly, suffering as much as it was possible for a mortal to suffer and exist.

Finally, Christian Science came to me, bearing the good tidings, "Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." Involuntary antagonism to Christian Science was in my thought when I was brought face to face with the signs that follow them that believe. I had seldom given any form of religion a thought. I had heard of Christian Science, but had never heard any good of it, and, had I been called upon to give my views of the subject, they would have been very uncomplimentary. Now I find myself singing the highest praise to the good work of Christian Science, not, however, as a mere profession, but because I have been healed. "As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed."

A friend who had been a sufferer from ailments very much like those which afflicted me, was healed in a short time under Christian Science treatment; in this case. I beheld unmistakably the proof of faith by works. This proof affected me like the opening of the eyes of the blind. I placed my case in the hands of a Christian Scientist. After three days' treatment I experienced an uplifting which caused me to feel as though I were literally lifted off the ground to be carried along by a gentle breeze. It would seem that this experience alone should have been sufficient to dispel all doubts from the mind of the most sceptical; but error was in me, and it must be gotten out. After a few weeks' treatment, all of which time it seemed that I could almost discern the outlines of the new heaven and new earth spoken of by the Revelator, there came the demand, "Work out your own salvation." Here is where the real battle began.

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