Testimony of Healing July 4, 1908 Issue

Since earliest boyhood do I remember hearing the Bible...

William Hall Robertson

Since earliest boyhood do I remember hearing the Bible read and studying it. I can recall the morning and evening hours which I used to spend thinking of the great Father, God. I knew that only through Him did I accomplish anything, and in due course of time I united with the church. I was, however, unable to affirm or conform to the church profession of faith in its entirety, and I always believed more in the Bible than in the church. As I grew older I found that I was unable to make the Bible conform in all ways to my human reason, but I laid the matter down at the feet of the all-wise Father, realizing that I must in some way conform to the Bible, never seek to make it conform to my reason, and at this point I found that I had apparently reached my limit in its study.

About this time I stumblingly formulated a profession of faith of my own, and I was upheld and supported by this rude platform for about five years; but I cannot describe the periods of awful doubt and fear which I went through while seemingly overwhelmed with the sickness, sin, want, and woe constantly in evidence. At the end of this period I added a new clause to this creed of mine, and although I had no friends in Christian Science, and knew nothing of its teachings, the following Sunday morning I awoke with the consciousness that I should seek a Christian Science service that morning, in order to obtain further knowledge of truth. Why did this thought come? I can only answer, as my experience in Science has taught me, that the divine Mind is ever at hand when the human consciousness is ready. Several times, while on my way to church that morning, I started to turn back, fearing I know not what; but I do know that I was led into a Christian Science service that very day, and there I gathered up these treasures from the storehouse of Truth: That God is good; that good is omnipotent; that God is All-in-all. I could have leapt for joy at this awakened consciousness, but I went home and carefully worked these thoughts out. Three days I struggled to be brave enough to admit God's omnipotence, but with the admission came a calm, sweet consciousness of peace indescribable, and then a sense of freedom so strong that it seemed as if I could not restrain my impulse to spread the good news abroad.

Immediately, upon this spiritual healing, my heart went out in thanks; then Love led me to one of His faithful ones, with whom I have studied and unfolded spiritually ever since. After one visit to a practitioner, when "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy was placed in my hands, and after three days' perusal of this priceless volume, I was astonished to realize physical healing. I discovered that I no longer needed glasses, that headaches and all my physical ailments, which were many, had been swept away. Thus did I come into a realization of man's real reconciliation to God for the first time, and also did I see how it was that the prodigal was so blessed as soon as the belief in the husks and the swine had been given up.

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