Testimony of Healing October 7, 1911 Issue

About three years ago I saw the truth about God, the...

Joseph Bowen

About three years ago I saw the truth about God, the truth about man which Christian Science teaches. The following shows how I reached a scientific conclusion : I had for nine years suffered from nervous trouble, but found no cure, after having tried everthing that presented itself, until finally it was my fortune to be associated with a Scientist in the same office. I saw her life, felt her influence, and this led me to secure a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and commence to study its teachings. It appeared to be fair and logical, and this appealed to me and caused me to search very earnestly for the truth; but I could not seem to be satisfied until a panic came which brought such great material loss that I did not see how I could overcome it.

Then the thought came to me to seek God earnestly through Christian Science, so I commenced with the Bible and Science and Health. In the first chapter of Genesis I read as follows : "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." It appealed to my reason that if man is made in the image and likeness of God, who is Spirit, he must be spiritual, so all my sufferings and dread of everlasting punishment must be untrue, for the scientific statement of being (as found on page 468 of Science and Health) states that "there is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation." Having made this discovery, I commenced to climb, for it did seem that I was climbing a high mountain which was very rough, especially on the start.

I was then called away on business, and although my oldest boy had a fever, I obeyed the call, studying the Bible and Science and Health at every opportunity, and this brought to me sufficient means to meet my present need, which was very great at that time. For this I was very thankful, and almost before I realized it every sorrow, every burdan, and every trouble disappeared, and I found myself, as it seemed to me, on the heights of Truth. I saw nothing but love, for the whole universe seemed to be the expression of Truth, Life, and Love, and I was part of it. This was surely "a new heaven and a new earth," the spiritual universe. All my sorrow and sin seemed to be as nothing, or like the mist. I was so overjoyed that I could scarcely talk; in fact, I did not know how to talk in the old way, because I had seen the nothingness of material things so clearly that I did not know how to speak of them. I was like a child coming into a new world. When I returned home, my family did not understand me, nor did I know how to explain, only that I was happy. When I met the practitioner, who had been very kind and patient, there was not a word said, but she knew I had found the truth.

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