Testimony of Healing July 13, 1907 Issue

Some six years ago, while spending a ten-days vacation...

E. M. Longcope

Some six years ago, while spending a ten-days vacation at a watering-place in Texas, I first opened the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and began its study. The novelty and force of many of its statements impressed me, though some sentences were puzzling and seemed contradictory. By constant and persistent use of a critical sense, I sought to unravel its hidden wealth of meaning by the ordinary processes of mortal mind,—inquiry into the pros and cons, the whys and wherefores,—but I found out afterwards that the logic of human reason and the constant appeal to the intellectual faculties were alike unprofitable. Afterwards I turned abruptly and with humility (who has not?) to the pathway of spiritual awakening outlined by our dear Leader, who says, "I won my way to absolute conclusions through divine revelation, reason, and demonstration" (Science and Health, p. 109). When I was healed over night of a sprained wrist, after ten days of pain and fruitless medication, full of joy and love I turned to my wife and said, "Why cannot I learn to do these things, and help you with the children?" Thus was established in my consciousness a great and primary truth, a fervent desire to serve others. Christ Jesus once said, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." There is no love without service. There is no service without love. Prayer cannot be made the fruitful vehicle of a capricious or resentful mind.

In a short time after beginning to demonstrate the truths of Christian Science there was revealed such a knowledge of the Scriptures as seemed wonderful,—hundreds of passages whose meaning had been heretofore hidden, blazed with prescience and divine potency. Many demonstrations or proofs of God's love followed. The habit of smoking disappeared, simply from reading Science literature, and a bowel trouble was banished in the same way. My oldest boy had his leg and foot severely injured by the pony falling upon him. In ten days both foot and leg were healed thoroughly, and not a trace of the trouble remained, not even discoloration nor the loss of a nail, though at first the appearance had been most alarming. The realization of the Scriptural statement, "A bone of him shall not be broken," and the scientific sense that there is no injury in Mind nor in its manifestation, set human thought right and destroyed the evil.

I have much to praise God for, more indeed than words can express. To her who has discovered anew the great truth of Christian Science, my heart goes out in daily acknowledgment. May the time soon come when "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."—E. M. Longcope, Houston, Tex.

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