Testimony of Healing October 19, 1912 Issue

For twelve years I had been a traveling salesman, and...

George T. Kinkead

For twelve years I had been a traveling salesman, and during this time had contracted many bad habits, which eventually brought me to the point where I was willing to give up fighting for my health. Physically and morally I was nearly a wreck, although I tried every material remedy; but I had lost faith in all. Having heard of Christian Science, I borrowed a copy of the text-book and tried to read it, but the statements which now mean so much to me meant nothing then, since I did not care for anything good or uplifting. Mentally I was in a state where anything which did not deal with pain or pleasure in matter did not interest me in the least, consequently a year or more went by without my opening Science and Health. Nevertheless, it seemed that nearly every day I would observe something which tended to convince me of the truth of some statement I had read in my brief perusal of the book. My health kept on getting worse, until I was simply driven to Christian Science, and I determined to study it in order to see for myself if it were true. I felt that I had no other hope, so I came as a little child, willing to do anything if I could only understand that God does not send sin, pain, and torture to His children.

Again taking up Science and Health, I read the first words in the Preface with an entirely new sense of their meaning: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings." This sentence made a profound impression on me. Indifference was gone, and in its place was an intense desire to understand this teaching. Before I had read very far my mind began to get much clearer, my body responded at once, and I was healed. Since that time numerous small ailments have been met and overcome by a realization of the truth. In each case, as soon as I could see the truth of being the ailment disappeared at once, and I feel it to be indeed a duty and a pleasure to tell what Christian Science has done for me,—the good which has come to me through the study of the Bible and Science and Health. It is my hope that others who have like problems will also come to see this. While many things yet remain to be unlearned, I am certain that the truth will be found by me and by all who earnestly search for it.

For all these blessings I am most grateful to God, also to Mrs. Eddy for pointing out the truth in such an understandable way.—George T. Kinkead, Columbus, Ohio.

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