Testimony of Healing November 4, 1905 Issue

I wish to express my appreciation for the many very...

George Bee Jackson

I wish to express my appreciation for the many very beautiful articles which appear in the Sentinel week after week. I have just closed my season with a theatrical company, having traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, from Canada to the Gulf, and back again. The trip was a very pleasant one, for it gave me opportunity to meet a great many Scientists, and I took advantage of every opportunity to visit the Christian Science churches. When I first heard of Christian Science in November, 1898, I was a wreck,—physically, mentally, financially, morally. I did not know what to do, and was very despondent, when a friend (God bless him) said to me, "Why don't you try Christian Science?" I had never heard those blessed words before, so I asked him what it was, and he told me it was the truth, explaining to me as best he could what he knew of it, and what he knew it had done, and what he thought it would do for me. I was very sick and tired of the many kinds of medicines I was taking, which were doing me no good, in fact I was getting worse all the time; so I made up my mind to try Christian Science. I went to the Reading Room in Minneapolis, where I was playing at the time with an opera company, met some Christian Scientists there, and bought a copy of Science and Health. In a few days we moved over to St. Paul, Minn., and there I looked for a practitioner. I was led to a lady, who talked very kindly to me and gave me so much hope that I at once asked for treatment. That one treatment did so much for me that I went to her for three days, and then I was convinced that this was the truth, and I was determined to give it a good trial. I threw away all my medicine and started in to study the Bible, which I had not read since I went to Sunday School, and Science and Health. We had a long trip that season, going to the Pacific coast, and I was digging away all the time with my books, so the time passed very quickly. In the autumn of 1889 I was in Chicago, where I was located with an opera company, and received class instruction. Since then it has been one glorious struggle, climbing up the strait and narrow path.

Leaving Chicago in 1901, I traveled with a small opera company through Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. I carried my Bible, Science and Health, and Quarterly, and attended service, inviting my associates to go with me, whenever we spent the Sunday in a town that had a Christian Science church or society; and when we spent the Sunday in a town where there were no Scientists, we had our little service in my room or in the hotel parlor, where the entire company would assemble, excepting three or four of the members.

I have had many beautiful demonstrations of Truth over error, and I want to say that all I am, all that I have to-day, I owe to Christian Science. Although the physical healing has been cause for much rejoicing, it is of little moment compared with the moral and spiritual healing. My heart is filled with love for dear Mrs. Eddy, since it was through the study of her writings that I was led to see the truth which makes free. I thank God each day that I am able to at least touch the hem of Christ's garment.

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