Testimony of Healing August 27, 1910 Issue

I give this experience with the hope that some one,...

Albert M. Cheney

I give this experience with the hope that some one, through reading it, may be encouraged to take up the study of Christian Science, as set forth in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. In the fall of 1906 I was troubled with a peculiar skin disease. A few weeks after its appearance I left my home in the middle West and came to California; but the change of climate caused me to feel much worse, and I began to realize that the time had come when I must choose whom I would serve.

Some years previous I had been remarkably healed through Christian Science treatment, and from that time until my arrival in California, I had used no material remedies, but had always looked to my mother, who was a Christian Scientist, to help me. During these years I had been very negligent about the study of Science, and preferred going to other places rather than to church. In one sense of the word I was a thief, trying to get something for nothing, desiring the physical healing and doing little or nothing to merit it. Like many others, I had to be divinely driven to do what I had for a long time known to be my duty. My healing was slow, but from the start I gained steadily, and I began to see that what I needed was moral and mental reformation. I am glad to say that the physical trouble has been entirely destroyed. The use of profanity, with other evil habits, has been overcome through the understanding of this beautiful and practical Science.

For the physical healing I am very grateful, but in no way does it compare with the spiritual uplift and moral reformation. One passage in our text-book reads, "Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the joys of Soul" (Science and Health, p. 390). This passage has given me great comfort, and is also teaching me that the pleasures of sense are more harmful than its pains. For the many blessings which Christian Science is bringing into my life, I am more thankful than words can express. I am thankful to God, the giver of all good, and I am also thankful to our revered Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who has so kindly and lovingly brought to our notice this great truth which meets our every-day needs.

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