Testimony of Healing January 1, 1910 Issue

I would like to relate how I became interested in Christian Science

J. R. Quinne

I would like to relate how I became interested in Christian Science. Nearly a year and a half ago I received a letter from a very dear friend, requesting me to attend a lecture on Christian Science which was to be given in Madison on June 28, and saying that, as he knew of my poor health at this time, I would have reason to be grateful for this advice. I attended the lecture, and was deeply interested in what the speaker had to say. I also noted that he had been healed of heart trouble, which at that time was causing me much suffering.

I resolved that night to take no more drugs, but to attend the Christian Science meetings and learn more of this teaching. At the very first meeting I attended I was impressed greatly by the simplicity of the service, the brotherly affection shown, the genuine harmony that existed among the members, and the courtesy extended to me. I attended the meetings for about four weeks, intending every day to take treatment, but I put it off from day to day until July 29. On that day I became very ill, as the effect of the drugs which I had taken previously had left me a physical wreck. After a few hours of rest I started for home from business, and reached there feeling as though I might pass out at any minute. After resting for two hours, I told my wife I would go down to the meeting and ask for treatment, as a last resort. My wife tried to persuade me to have the doctor, saying that I could not suffer that way much longer. I however said, "No more drugs for me. I am going to try Christian Science." I started for the meeting in a very weakened condition, and after the service I talked with a friend who had been cured of heart and lung trouble. I asked him if he thought I could be healed or receive relief from such suffering as I was then enduring. He said, "There is a practitioner right here. Go to him right now, state your case, and trust in God."

I stated my case to the practitioner, who assured me that there is nothing impossible to God, divine Mind. He said I must cast out of my consciousness all jealous, malicious, and erroneous thoughts of every kind, and trust in God. He told me to go home and forget that I had ever been sick. I did go home, and I did forget my fear of the disease. I never awakened until I was called at six o'clock. It was the first all-night sleep in thirty years, having had in that time no more than two or three hours a night. I ate such a hearty breakfast that my wife said I had better go to the Christian Science meeting again. To think of all the months that I had suffered, and to be absolutely healed in one night; to take treatment at a quarter past nine and get up a well man at six o'clock the next morning, fully restored to health and vigor, seemed indeed marvelous to me; but it was no dream, it was instead remarkable evidence of the reality of the divine Mind, through the understanding and demonstration of Christian Science, which shows us clearly that there is nothing impossible to God, if we only obey Him and have faith in His power, as Mrs. Eddy explains to us in that wonderful book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

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