Testimony of Healing May 9, 1908 Issue

I had often read the parable of the prodigal son, and...

Edwin K. Twigg

I had often read the parable of the prodigal son, and since coming into Christian Science it has become clear to me that this prodigal was I, for like him I went into a far country, wasting my material substance in search of something for which I was famishing — I knew not what, but in the old thought I was seeking to gain health by material means. I had been a great sufferer from mental depression, worry, and a nervous condition which my doctor called paralytic trouble, — so much indeed that he gave me only a short time to live. He said that if I did survive. I would have to be taken to an asylum. Well, that time has passed, and instead of the doctor's words being proved true, I am now better than I have ever been before; all the worry has left me, I now let bygones be bygones, and instead of looking back, like Lot's wife, I am constantly looking forward and upward.

Whilst I was searching for health by material means, I began to think; I came to myself, I began to be in want. I decided, like the prodigal son, that I would go home (for I was then in Boston), and while on the boat coming back to England, Christian Science was presented to me by a kind gentleman who himself had suffered even as I was suffering. Christian Science appealed to me as that for which I was famishing. I accepted it, and it so fed my "famished affections" (Science and Health, p. 17) that I wanted more, very much, and I am now trying to live upon it. When I got home I was welcomed like the wandering child, and I can scarcely express my thankfulness to Christian Science for the peace and joy it has brought to my home. It has not only healed me of all my ailments, but it has also healed my wife of several complaints which had troubled her for a number of years; the result being that we never were so healthy and so happy as at the present time. For these many blessings I cannot send out too much love for Mrs. Eddy for her noble self-sacrifice and loving-kindness in giving to suffering humanity that inspiring book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which certainly has unlocked the casket containing the truth about divine Love, the truth which was never lost, but hidden from us. The physical healing of Christian Science is certainly something to be thankful for, but the spiritual uplifting and the understanding of the Bible which it gives me, by which I am spiritually fed, encourages me daily to watch and pray for that Mind to be in me that was also in Christ Jesus. Truth shows us the way, not only to health, happiness, and holiness here, but to life eternal. For all this I am indebted to God, and to Christian Science. —

Edwin K. Twigg, Heywood. Eng.

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