Testimony of Healing August 20, 1904 Issue

I have received so much benefit from reading the testimonies...

W. C. Crosier

I have received so much benefit from reading the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal that I am prompted to give mine in the hope that it may help some one who is striving to believe that God is Love, that He made man perfect, and that there is no power to make him sick or sinful.

I was brought into Christian Science under the lash. Fifteen years of my life I spent as traveling man. Away from home influences, I rarely ever went to church or gave God a thought, but instead, indulged myself to the fullest extent in worldly pleasures. During recent years, however, through pride and self-respect, I had exercised enough will power to subdue most of my desire for dissipation. In the winter of 1901, having seen some healing in Christian Science, I was given one treatment by a practitioner, for a cold, and the ailment was met. Soon, however, all my former desires came back and I returned to my old life of dissipation. In a few weeks I had symptoms of what is considered by physicians an incurable disease. In great fear I went from one physician to another, until I had visited three in the hope that I might find one who would say I was unduly alarmed, but they all gave the same opinion. Then I started on a trip with medicine in my valise, and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy in my pocket. For two weeks there was a desperate struggle between the human and the divine. I would pray and read Science and Health all night, and take medicine all day, but at the end of two weeks I gave up medicine, and threw myself on God's mercy, and went back to my practitioner. Through her clear knowledge of God and her consecration to His cause, her prayers in my behalf were answered, and I was healed. Then one by one the devils were cast out, and I could no longer enjoy whiskey or tobacco. I have not had any desire for either since.

I have now been striving for twenty-two months to follow in Jesus' footsteps and have succeeded to the extent that I have proven to my satisfaction that all his teachings and demonstrations were for the guidance of all mankind in all ages, that there is no condition of consciousness which cannot be made harmonious by a realization of the Truth of being. I can truly say with the psalmist, "It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes."

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