Testimony of Healing January 13, 1912 Issue

It is a blessed privilege to give a testimony to the healing...

A. Conway-Peyton

It is a blessed privilege to give a testimony to the healing power of Christian Science, and I am grateful for the opportunity of expressing my joy in being able to take up my bed and walk. I was suffering from two very distressing diseases, pronounced incurable by the medical profession. One disease was left to die out of itself, and I was told to forget the other. This seemed to me at the time to be the bitterest sarcasm, but I wish to state here that I feel only gratitude and love for those grand men who struggled to free me. As a possible outlook I took up hygienic treatment for over two years; but neither of the diseases abated, and in fact one was greatly accentuated.

For quite a while I lost interest in all things, even friends, and in my work, in which I was fast deteriorating. A chance acquaintance with a customer brought to me the thought that there was no necessity for me to suffer. My customer was a Christian Science student, and though nothing further was said on the subject, I confused Christian Science withh various "isms." The blessed moment came, however, when I read three chapters from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. As I now gratefully recall it, the chapters were Creation, Prayer, and the Preface. I was partly healed while reading the book; then my case was taken by a practitioner, who lovingly treated me, and showed me how to find the bread of life, and I was made free.

How can I help being grateful to that grand disciple who in this age has made known to humanity the healing power of Christ, the perfect concept of God and man. I am thankful to God for the privilege of knowing Him in Christian Science, and grateful for the Journal, the Sentinel, and the Monitor, which point to the uplands of thought.—A. Conway-Peyton, Chicago, Ill.