Testimony of Healing February 28, 1901 Issue

Convinced by Reading Science and Health

J. W. Higinbotham

I was not brought into Christian Science through physical healing, nor argued into it by zealous advocates. I did not embrace this Truth to please some one else, nor start my investigations hoping that Christian Science was the Truth and seeking to be convinced thereof. After years of blind, unreasoning opposition to the name (that was all that I knew correctly), I concluded to attend a testimonial meeting of this church, and was thoroughly convinced of the intelligence and sincerity of the witnesses for the Truth. I resolved to read the text-book of Christian Science and find out what was working such wonderful results. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" appealed to my reasoning power from the first. It was logical, complete, and unanswerable. It revealed the rational, consistent, and demonstrable science of the relation of God to His universe.

Shortly afterward I tested its healing power by placing myself under the care of a Christian Science practitioner, and in twenty-four hours was healed of a trouble of three years' standing. This was four years ago, and there has since been no recurrence. But the delight to mind and relief to body are not to be compared to the glimpses caught of the spiritual possibilities of man regenerated by Christian Science. It has made me a constant attendant at church, a student of the Bible, and has shown me that the kingdom of heaven (harmony) is a present possibility. It proves that there is no reality in sickness, no pleasure in sin, and no profit in dishonesty.

I do not claim to have overcome all erroneous conditions, but this I have acquired,—an aversion to everything unlike Good. This scientific displacement of sin results in a purer mind, a happier disposition, and a healthier body; and on these foundations a more complete manhood is possible.—J. W. Higinbotham, Chicago, Ill.

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