Testimony of Healing November 19, 1910 Issue

I often think of those who are not present at our helpful...

Henry E. Hewitt

I often think of those who are not present at our helpful and uplifting Wednesday evening meetings, and I wish I might share with them the love and truth which is found there. When I think of some who are working out the problem of life, alone in some far-away country village, where perhaps they see no Christian Scientist for months to help them on with an encouraging word, I wonder how I, who have so much cause to rejoice, can ever complain or be a sluggard in the race.

Two years ago I just existed, my case hopeless according to materia medica, and I was not strong enough, in the opinion of my relatives, ever to do much work; but that verdict has been set aside, for today I am living, not merely existing, healed of my physical troubles, and able to work hard and long every day. At that time I was going to church as in my boyhood days, but was unhappy and discontented because I had not found a God to whom I might draw nigh and know. Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 155) that "all power and happiness are spiritual, and proceed from goodness;" therefore I need no longer be unhappy, and how can I be discontented with an ever-present God, good, as my guide, my strength, my wisdom, and my all. I often ask myself, Am I really grateful for the good I have received in the short time since I put aside my prejudice and consented to read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which a friend let me take because she said to needed to read it? I did read, but at first found nothing. I, however, read on, and still there seemed to be nothing in that book which I needed; but one day the light came, and it was not long before I obtained a copy for myself.

As the Christ-healing has been restored to us in God's own way, after being lost sight of for so many centuries, so all will sooner or later come to work out their individual problems, which are at times forgotten because of some worldly ambition or selfish desire. All I am and all I hope to be I owe to Christian Science, and my silent prayer is that I may be found worthy and prove my gratitude as I journey on from sense to Soul, to spiritual freedom and strength.—Henry E. Hewitt, Boston, Mass.

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