Testimony of Healing February 25, 1905 Issue

The longer I am in the work of Christian Science, the...

Arthur E. Jennings with contributions from Elizabeth Truman

The longer I am in the work of Christian Science, the more grateful I am for the testimonies of healing that are given in the Sentinel and Journal. The healing of the multitude to-day through spiritual means proves to me that its blessings are for all. Christian Science is teaching me to know myself and is leading me out of false human beliefs. I owe my health and happiness to Mrs. Eddy's discovery. It has lifted me "out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock." Christian Science is showing me how the truth, the Word of God, can be applied to the every-day affairs of life. Science and Health not only tells me what is to be done in order to work out my own salvation, but it shows me how to do it.

Most of my boyhood days were spent in the hands of physicians. From birth I was considered a very weakly child, but my mother was brave, and being much devoted to me did everything within her knowledge and power for my comfort. Sickness and medicine were continually before me, and by the time I reached my teens I thought I knew a material remedy for every ill. I continued in my delusions, because I was never told the real cause of my trouble. Besides being under a leading specialist for two years, I was also an out-door patient of a noted hospital, but I was not healed. It is wonderful how the "little ones" are cared for in the face of all these seeming difficulties. I always used the prayers that I had been taught, and as I grew older I began to ask for wisdom. Little by little I gained a desire for freedom, and my prayers finally led me to the truth. The first week that I heard of Christian Science, I visited the home of dear Christian Science friends, and was at once refreshed by their purity of thought and example. At their invitation I immediately purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and, after studying it a little while with the Bible, I saw that if the Bible was true Science and Health must also be true. I began to demonstrate over my physical and mental condition, and as soon as the fear and pain began to leave me I felt encouraged to go on. I was healed, and stopped complaining. I kept on studying our text-book, and when I got an understanding in a small degree of the Science of Mind, my first thought was to help others. I was guided where I could progress in Science, and was no longer "carried about with every wind of doctrine," but held to Principle as closely as possible. From the time the healing came into my consciousness, the desire for material remedies left me, because Christian Science at once pointed out the way to get at the cause of discord and disease. All that I had to give up were the false beliefs of mortal mind. Christian Science then taught me to love the church, and to appreciate what it had already done for mankind. I often thought of the old adage, "Charity begins at home," and after three years' preparation I felt able to take Christian Science to my home, where it found, in due time, ready acceptance and willing disciples. This gave me even greater joy than my own healing. The more good I saw accomplished the more love I had for the truth. Christian Science changed my course from the first, and gave me a nobler aim and purpose in life. I was not so easily influenced by other people's shortcomings, when I learned that evil has neither personality nor place. I was not so ready to take offence, when I found out the way to work unselfishly for the upbuilding of the Cause. Divine intelligence alone points out the way. I wanted to progress, and received class instruction. This step, like the rest, opened the way for something higher, and I am thankful to my teacher who gave me a practical understanding of the obligations and duties of a Christian Scientist.

To our Leader, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, I owe just and grateful acknowledgment.

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