Testimony of Healing May 22, 1909 Issue

Man in the image and likeness of his creator cannot be...

D. W. Flora

Man in the image and likeness of his creator cannot be called either old or young at eighty, but mortal mind must use some finite measurement. Take my own fourscore years, during which period I cannot remember one year in which I was free from rheumatic trouble. Forty years ago it drove me from the field of battle to the hospitals; twenty-five years ago, I had to leave a country practice as my hands were disabled for surgery, and no longer having any confidence in medicine, I quit both. As a sort of compromise I accepted the position of health officer in a country village, it being my duty to protect the people from infectious and contagious diseases. Certain germs, microbes, etc.; are charged with causing these diseases, and my business was to destroy the germs while other doctors treated the people with their favorite medicines. I found, however, that the use of material remedies, against either mortal germs or the diseases which they are supposed to cause, is a losing battle, so I gave it up; but the rheumatic trouble still held to me closer than a brother.

Truly the designs of God are inscrutable to the finite mind. Forty years with path obscured, not a ray of spiritual light to guide my feet! It is true there came floating upon the air some perverted notions which were intended to caricature the Science; for example: "When you are sick, just deny that anything ails you, and you will quickly be well;" or, "It is faith-cure." These definitions sometimes came from a brother "medic," but I must say that even these would be as good as the orthodox cure alone. Having in vain tried that faith for many years in early life, I turned from "faith without works" as something dead. Thus the Christ-cure found me about one year ago. The life-time case of rheumatic trouble has vanished before it like the night dew before the morning sun. An attack of illness in the winter of 1907–8 was cured by the truth in Christian Science in two hours. An attack of the same disease had held me a prisoner for two months some years before.

When I first began to listen in church to the reading of the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, I could only hear an occasional word, but now I hear distinctly from any part of the auditorium. I am yet troubled with defective vision, of which I feel that nothing but the Christ-cure can make me free, but I can now read pages where at first I could read only lines.—Dr. D. W. Flora, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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