Testimony of Healing June 3, 1905 Issue

I cannot longer refrain from expressing my appreciation...

Tennyson S. Spurlock

I cannot longer refrain from expressing my appreciation of the Sentinel. It has afforded me much pleasure, comfort, and joy. I also desire to express my gratitude to God, and to the dear God-inspired woman who has led us into the light. How well do I remember the first copy of the Sentinel I ever saw. When it was first published, I was situated so that most of my time during the day was taken with my duties as a stenographer, bookkeeper, and with other office work, but when I had a few spare moments they were spent in reading Christian Science literature.

I was not brought into Christian Science through physical healing (although I had seen its physical benefits, and have since experienced them), but for its religious teaching. I had religious proclivities since a child, but not enough conviction to join the orthodox church under whose teachings I was reared. When I saw and learned something of Christian Science, I did not doubt that it was the religion which Jesus preached and practised.

In my early days, I pondered the, to me, irreconcilable argument of older people, that when people died "It was their time to go—God had called them home;" but of those who recovered from illness it was doctor so-and-so who had restored them to health and saved their lives, and he, instead of God, was given the glory. I could not understand how a physician could possibly restore life, if God had called, and if He had not called, they would have recovered any way. When I learned to read the Bible for myself, I believed that healing should be done through prayer, as Jesus healed.

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