Testimony of Healing January 2, 1909 Issue

It is now twenty-two years since Christian Science first...

B. F. Haugh

It is now twenty-two years since Christian Science first came to my notice through its acceptance by three members of a brother's family. They were very enthusiastic adherents of the then new doctrine in Indianapolis, where I was at that time a resident. Through conversation with these three students, a glimmering of the Christ-healing came to me; but it did not appeal to my understanding, and I turned a deaf ear, as so many others have done before and since. My first real awakening to the power of the truth that makes men free from sin and sickness, was six years ago, when a member of my family was healed of a serious illness. Her troubles had baffled the skill of the best physicians of the country, and she had had the advantage of a long season of sanitarium treatment, all of which only palliated her distresses but did not heal them.

In the spring of 1904, when an epidemic was prevalent, I suffered from a violent attack of the malady, and was under the care of our kind family physician. He administered hypodermics to relieve me of the severe pain, and I was under his treatment for several days before I was able to go about my work. Three months later I was visited by another attack of this same disease, equally violent with that of the previous attack. On the urgent advice of my daughter, I decided to try Christian Science in this instance. I told her that this would give me a fine opportunity to test the relative merits of Christian Science treatment as compared with materia medica. A practitioner was called, and within less than an hour after his arrival I was completely relaxed and fell into a sweet and restful sleep. When I awoke the next morning I was as well as usual, the disease having been completely overcome, and there was no suffering from after effects, as in drug medication. In two days I was about my business as usual, and quite unconscious of having just passed through a serious illness.

This practical illustration of the effectiveness of Christian Science healing in my own experience satisfied me entirely, and from that day to this I have relied wholly upon divine Mind for help in every emergency. I am now approaching the four-score limit of age, and in no one thing more than another has "the renewing of the mind," as taught in Science and Health, been more helpful to me than in the overcoming of the belief of age and its limitations. I am able to go about my business, to make long journeys by railroad, and to be out in all kinds of weather, through the sustaining help of divine Love. I had been a church-member for many years, and tried to live a consistent Christian life, but the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, has opened to me an understanding of the Bible which I never had in the old way of thinking. I read the Bible before as a sort of perfunctory duty, but now I read it because I have a clearer understanding of the divine message and what it means to be one of God's children.

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