Testimony of Healing November 12, 1904 Issue

I am twenty-five years of age, employed as salesman in...

Russell Freeman

I am twenty-five years of age, employed as salesman in one of the large retail establishments of this city, and everyday for over two years I have proven the power of Truth over error. Before that time I had been to many doctors and had exhausted the resources of materia medica in my efforts to get free from nervous trouble. During those years I took large quantities of medicine, and the last lot of empty bottles which were thrown away nearly filled a bushel basket. The last treatment I took from a physician was the lymph cure. This treatment was very expensive, and I had to borrow the money in order to take it. At the end of that time I seemed to have improved but the effect lasted barely one month and I was then in about the same condition as before. I soon got worse; was obliged to stop my work temporarily, and it was during this period, when I was hopelessly discouraged, that I was induced to try Christian Science.

My first distinct impression after treatment was one of peace and happiness which I had not known for many years. I was under treatment for a little over a week when I was healed. I was, however, only commencing my work, which has continued for the last two years. I was healed but I had to learn that if I wanted to stay healed I must "go, and sin no more." My progress after that was slow, and was "attended with doubts and defeats as well as triumphs" (Science and Health, p. 39). There were many struggles in darkness and many a time it seemed that I should never be free, but one by one the errors were destroyed, the wrong thinking was corrected, and from each seeming defeat I emerged stronger and with a clearer understanding, which enabled me to meet the errors more successfully when they presented themselves again. In my business life, which is exceedingly active, I have found a practical basis,—the understanding of divine Principle,—which demonstrates good and harmony. I have found that the law of God, good, will, if applied rightly, work for good everywhere, no matter what the condition seems to be. Science and Health teaches us that all action is in Spirit, harmonious and perfect, and by realizing and applying this truth, I have been enabled, with the help of my teacher and practitioner, to rise above the nervous prostration which a physician said was the worst case he had ever seen in a person of my age. The power of Truth was demonstrated time and again when, if the evidences of the physical senses had been believed, I would have been prostrated. In learning the basic law of mathematics for the first time, we must have faith in that which is taught us until we have worked it out for ourselves and know it to be true. So in learning Christian Science, if we want to work out our problem successfully, we must have sufficient faith in the Principle until the demonstration is made, and then faith becomes understanding. This understanding I have received to the extent that it has destroyed the illusion of sickness and restored health by the power of Truth over error.

Russell Freeman, Chicago, III.

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