Testimony of Healing September 3, 1910 Issue

I feel that I have delayed too long in sending an acknowledgment...

Duncan Sinclair

I feel that I have delayed too long in sending an acknowledgment of my indebtedness to Christian Science. It was first brought to my notice over five years ago. At that time I was far from well, for in the previous winter I had contracted a severe cold (a thing of frequent occurrence in those days), which remained for many months. Things seemed gradually to become worse, and my fears were increased when a medical doctor informed me that my condition was serious, one of my lungs being in a bad condition. As a result I was subjected to more strenuous drugging than before, but without any benefit whatever.

When things seemed at their darkest, the fact of the existence of Christian Science came to memory. Often in the past I had wondered whether the miracles recorded of Jesus and the early church had not grown out of the perfervid imagination of tradition, since they seemed to traduce natural law as I apprehended it; or, if Jesus had really healed the sick and saved the sinning, whether he had done it scientifically or because of some special dispensation of God. I had long felt that there was something wrong, something sadly lacking, in the understanding I had of the life and works of Christ Jesus. Little did I dream, when I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that I was to find therein the golden key which, as I can truly testify, has indeed opened the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation, and revealed to me the Mind that was in the Master. It presented so extraordinary a view of God and man and the universe, and withal retained such a consistency of logic as to hold my mind in perfect acquiescence to its hypotheses and arguments.

Could it be true, if God were admitted to be infinite Life, infinite Truth, infinite Love, that sickness, death, evil of every description, had no origin, and consequently no real existence; that as entities or realities they did not exist at all? And the word "infinite" surely excluded all else but Himself—God—the good One and His ideas! The assertion of Mrs. Eddy that such is the case, was the boldest I had ever encountered in the region of the metaphysical. My training in natural science had been largely that of the experimentalist, and I readily admitted that her position could not be lightly set aside, and that, as she held, if it were true it could be proved or demonstrated.

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