Testimony of Healing December 3, 1910 Issue

I trust that the following testimony may be of help to...

H. F. T. Fisher with contributions from M. C. Fisher

I trust that the following testimony may be of help to any one who has a belief in heredity to overcome. From childhood I was considered to be delicate, with an inherited tendency to weak lungs. I was frequently laid up with colds, which usually affected my chest, and if any kindred malady appeared in the neighborhood, I was generally one of the first victims. Although I became stronger as I grew up, I can scarcely recall a winter (prior to my acceptance of Christian Science) that I did not suffer from a cold during some part of the time. I also suffered much from my throat, and frequently had to resort to electric and other treatment, with only temporary relief. In 1901 I was invalided from South Africa and spent six months on "sick leave," during which time I was periodically laid up with illness which I seemed unable to shake off, in spite of a month spent in the Riviera. Finally, feeling that I could not stand the English winter climate any longer, I applied for a billet in Ceylon, and was taken off the sick-list in order to be sent there in March, 1902.

Although my cough left me and I seemed to get quite well again during the first part of my residence in that country, before eighteen months had elapsed I was again on the sick-list, suffering from anæmia with its attendant miseries. I was then sent for a six-weeks voyage on medical recommendation, but I returned to Ceylon worse than I had left it, and with a cough which no amount of nursing seemed able to remove. I was then examined by a medical board, declared to be suffering from a serious affection of the lungs, and was again invalided to England. My lung healed up on the voyage, but I reached home in the spring of 1904 a miserable invalid, at my wits' end to know what to do or where to turn for help. I was afraid to face another winter in England and equally afraid to return to the tropics, so it was suggested that I should try Switzerland or South Africa.

"Man's extremity" is truly "God's opportunity," and I was persuaded to consult a Christian Scientist, although I felt confident that there was little to be gained by it, having read much against it. In the course of two or three conversations with a practitioner, I said that I was afraid my complaint was beyond the help of Christian Science, being hereditary. The practitioner replied that heredity was merely a belief which could have no power to harm if one understood the truth as revealed by Christian Science. This reply seemed to convey to me for the first time that material conditions could really be overcome, no matter how chronic or constitutional they claimed to be. I asked a few more questions, and then I suddenly saw that Christian Science was true, and that in arguing against it I had been blindly opposing that which alone could give me health and happiness.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

As an expression of gratitude for Christian Science, and...