Testimony of Healing July 30, 1910 Issue

It is with gratitude and joy that I endeavor to express...

Fred R. Rhodes

It is with gratitude and joy that I endeavor to express my thanks to God for the healing truth which has been unfolded to me by Christian Science. I feel sure that all who study this beautiful teaching, given to the world through our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, will see how we are bound to revere her for being so brave and steadfast in the face of the most bitter persecution, in order that the whole world might receive this revelation of something absolute, in place of what was relative and contingent.

I had been in search of physical help practically all my life; in fact, only through the greatest care and love that a mother could show, was I brought through childhood at all. I was a great sufferer from severe catarrh and earache, and each succeeding year was subject to colds and very aggravated throat trouble. During one of these attacks an operation had to be performed. In 1891 I was invalided home from New York, suffering from severe poisoning, and after an operation lingered for seven months between life and death. In 1897 my throat troubles became so serious that on two occasions my life was despaired of. About 1904 the old wound caused by the operation commenced to give me intense pain, and although many remedies were tried, I did not get any permanent relief. Two years later my heart became very painful, and I was ordered by a specialist to give up my work and go abroad. I was refused insurance on account of this difficulty. I could not sleep on my left side, and suffered in many other ways from it.

In June, 1907, while spending the evening with an old friend, who had taken up the study of Christian Science, I asked him if he thought it could possibly help me to get free from my wretched physical condition, and his reply was so earnest and convincing that we made an appointment with a practitioner for the following afternoon. I must say here that, owing to my weak state of health, I had been allowed to do practically whatever I liked while a boy, and had contracted a passion for cards, racing, etc., so that hardly a day passed but found me indulging in one or the other. Never thinking of anything above material enjoyment, religion was practically unknown to me, and I had not read the Bible for a great many years. It must have seemed to those who knew me that if Christian Science could heal me physically it was wonderful, but if it could possibly lift me out of the mire and give me a desire to know God, then it indeed must be the teaching of the Christ.

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