Testimony of Healing December 25, 1902 Issue

After two years of spiritual and helpful comfort received...

Archibald Winne

After two years of spiritual and helpful comfort received from reading our weekly and monthly publications, I am constrained, in this season of thankful acknowledgment for all our blessings, to contribute my mite to the overwhelming evidence of the might and power of the Christian Science thought.

I am glad that the remoteness in time of the incidents narrated in Bible history cannot prevent us from drawing spiritual lessons from the characters mentioned therein, and applying them in the life of the individual of to-day It has been said by another, that "the conversion of Paul proved the power of Christianity to overcome the strongest prejudices, and to stamp its own type on a large nature by a revolution both instantaneous and permanent." The conversion of Paul typifies the revolution that still continues to work in man through the same power of a risen Saviour. Before his conversion he was filled with a seeming religious fervor, only of a type opposite to that which finally claimed him; and so it is with man to-day, when his material sense of wrong yields to the spiritual sense of right, when the loving and entreating voice of Jesus in his glorified humanity is recognized in the consciousness of man, as it was then, calling "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?" (a call that is individualized by the substitution of our own name for that of Saul). When this voice is recognized and heeded, then will it bring man to his Damascus, and remove every doubt that it was the Christ who demonstrated for us all the Science of Being.

I thank God and the Founder of this revealed Science, that, about two years ago, in the reading of Science and Health, I saw the light which showed me the way out of bondage to the liquor and tobacco habits, with the attendant results of over forty years' standing. This, and very many other proofs since, together with the spiritual uplifting which has followed, making joyous my own life as well as the lives of others, convinces me as it did Paul—and as he so beautifully expressed it—that, "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me."

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