Testimony of Healing July 9, 1904 Issue

Christian Science was brought to my notice...

J. C. Percy

Christian Science was brought to my notice more than a dozen years ago, by its slipping in nearly unawares and doing some good healing work in my family. My mental status at that time was that of an avowed infidel.

None of the religious doctrines that had been presented to my thought were acceptable. I simply could not believe them. The Bible was a conundrum that I had ceased to try to unravel. I was interested in the writings of agnostics, and I wanted truth and fact, not fable or fiction.

On many points my thought was very bitter towards Christian theology as I understood it, and I looked into Christian Science expecting to find a lot of superstition, but instead my infidel theories got such a jolt as they never had before. The fallacy of intelligence springing from matter was clearly shown, and I said on reading Science and Health, that if its teachings were true, it would revolutionize the world. My thought was completely changed, and it was rather a bitter dose to have to admit that I had been in error until more than fifty years old, but Truth conquered the error of pride of opinion, and now I am gladly learning life's problems from the standpoint that "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation" (Science and Health, p. 468), instead of, all is matter and force.

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