Testimony of Healing December 31, 1904 Issue

In the year 1897, like the man going down from Jerusalem...

E. A. G. with contributions from H. H. T., JR.

In the year 1897, like the man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, I "fell among thieves" (false views of life) who beat me and stripped me of contentment, joy, peace,—all that makes up the happiness of life,—and I was left "half dead" with sin and sorrow. Many, with a faint and waning faith in God,—personal friends, and family,—"passed by on the other side," but the good Samaritan who took compassion on me in that dark and needy hour was Christian Science, as found in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy. It did not find me with bodily injuries, but with the deep and painful wounds of moral disorder and the mental agony which accompanies such conditions. It found all the affairs of my life snarled and twisted by sin, but the healing oil of its glorious gospel was then, and has continued to be, poured daily into those wounds since that hour, and by the light of the truth which says that God is the Life of man, the snarled and twisted places have been straightened out, while the wounds have been healed. By that oil and by that light, I have been enabled to bind up the wounds of many others, and for the encouragement of those in the great world of humanity, so full of sin and suffering, seeking a sure and permanent relief for like conditions, I wish to say that I have seen many varieties of disease and much sin destroyed by the right application of the Christ-cure. I wish to send forth a word of gratitude for every loving effort ever made in my behalf, and for to-day I do not see a better means than by way of this testimony, the motive of which may attract and help some one.—E. A. G., Chicago, Ill.

I write this testimony of my experience in Christian Science with a feeling of gratitude that my life as a Christian Scientist and my business life started together, and that in the past three years I have felt continually the guidance and healing power of divine Love. On my first day of work after graduation from college, I met the man through whom I became interested in Christian Science and who took me to my first Wednesday evening meeting. I found there an atmosphere of peace and outreaching good-will to men such as I had never before experienced. I drank it in greedily and felt at one with the little band of seekers for the pearl of great price, the understanding of God. That meeting showed me how to obtain this understanding. What Truth has done for me it would be impossible for me to tell. I do not know the half of it myself. I was relieved of the necessity of wearing glasses by the demonstration of the one who first brought me to Science. Before this proof of God's government I could not leave them off while at work, without nervous twitchings of the head. The understanding of Truth which I have gained has proved to me conclusively that Christian Science is indeed the revelation of the divine Principle underlying all things,—that it is absolutely true; and that the blessings which follow its practice are in accordance with the law of infinite Love, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

I wish to testify to the gratitude which I feel to Mrs. Eddy, through whom this truth has been revealed, and also to my thankfulness that I have been led to follow it.

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