Testimony of Healing August 5, 1911 Issue

The mistake of thinking that I would wait for a greater...

G. W. PARTON

The mistake of thinking that I would wait for a greater demonstration of the truth, before giving my testimony as to the efficacy of Christian Science teaching, led me to defer what should have been acknowledged a year or two ago. I was taken the day after Christman (1909) with what appeared to be a severe attack of rheumatism. It continued through the week and increased to such an extent that I felt I must cancel a dinner engagement with a friend for New Year's day. She lived not far away and I managed to get to her house the day before New Year's and tell her why I could not have her come. On returning to my home, I found it was with difficulty that I could get around, aches and pains being very evident. The thought then came to me that there was one thing that I could do, namely, to get my books and study the Lesson-Sermon, feeling that I could take just as much time as I wished without any likelihood of interruption. This experience showed me how much of the Lesson is lost when one takes it up hurriedly, while thinking at the same time of other things to be done, thus taking the mind almost entirely from the Lesson in the eagerness to attend to something else. It seems to me more profitable, if one is seemingly limited as to time, to give one section due thought and consideration, rather than to go through the whole Lesson is haste.

The subject of this Lesson was "God," and I found it unusually interesting. It seemed as if I had never received so much good from any other which I had studied. I was so absorbed in it that I thought neither of aches nor pains—in fact, I forgot everything but the Lesson, and when I had finished it I found myself up and in an adjoining room, and I then realized that I was free from all the former symptoms. I walked around the room in my accustomed way, making as it were a test of myself, and then I knew that I was healed, perfectly free from what less than an hour before was so painfully evident.

I then went back to my friend. I did not crawl this time, but ran and told her she could come, as I was perfectly well. She was so amazed that she laughed and said, "How is it that it is so quick, for only about an hour ago you were here so lame you could scarcely walk?" Not being a Scientist, she could not understand it. However, the healing made such an impression on her that she mentioned it to her friends as something she saw for herself, and it seemed to her wonderful. I will add that since then there has not been the slightest return of the rheumatism, and a friend called it a good demonstration of instantaneous healing.

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