Testimony of Healing May 23, 1908 Issue

On this day which is set apart for a general thanksgiving

Rollo S. Fay

On this day which is set apart for a general thanksgiving, I am reminded that I have considerable to be thankful for, and am impelled to make an attempt to express my gratitude. In July, 1906, I was filling a clerical position, and found myself in poor health. I had a very annoying cough, was losing flesh and strength rapidly, and was subject to a high fever every afternoon. I sought the advice of a physician, who made a thorough examination and pronounced it a serious case of lung trouble; he said I must leave the office and go to the mountains. Situated as I was, the latter seemed impossible; but I did resign my position, and went home fully convinced that dissolution was not far off. My reflections during this period of idleness were far from cheering, and while I continued to take such medicines as the doctor prescribed, I was daily growing worse.

Opportunely for me, a friend who was an enthusiastic Christian Scientist began to interest herself in my behalf. She enlisted my wife's support, and between them they succeeded in getting me to visit a practitioner and apply for treatment. To gratify them I went, thinking the treatment could do me no harm, but not having the most remote notion of being benefited. However, as during the three weeks which I had been under the doctor's care I had continually failed, I willingly discarded the use of all medicines as requested, and otherwise tried to do as directed by the practitioner. I remember that I was advised to lay aside all fear and put my trust in the power of God; and I was told at the same time that so far from it being necessary for me to seek a change of climate, I might even resume my old position very shortly. And so it came about, as within a month, the position being still open, I returned to my work and have been at a desk ever since. I am happy to say that through the grace of God I am now in excellent health and have been for some time past. As I have never taken a dose of medicine since I first called on the Scientist, my cure is entirely attributable to Christian Science.

The reading of Science and Health and Kindred literature is gradually opening up a new vista, and what at one time seemed vague and unreal to me is assuming a new meaning and becoming more tangible. I trust I may yet be able to read the Scriptures understandingly, and I daily thank God for His manifold blessings. I also trust that at the next anniversary of this day I may be enabled to express my gratitude in a manner more in conformity with Christian Science and savoring less of worldly dogmas.

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