Testimony of Healing November 23, 1912 Issue

In the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy a most beautiful...

Frank W. Gibson

In the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy a most beautiful promise is held out to those who shall hearken diligently to the voice of God, and this same promise is repeated again and again all through the Scriptures. Jesus expressed it when he said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." This great and everlasting truth is the greeting in the Preface of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, where she says, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings."

But eighteen months have elapsed since we in our home sought the truth of these promises, and in that time have come glimpses of this kingdom and an ever-growing consciousness of the presence of the sustaining infinite. When Christian Science found us, my wife had just been informed by her medical adviser that an operation was the only hope of a permanent cure for an internal trouble from which she was suffering. We did not doubt but that the operation would be successful, but through fear of the ordeal she readily grasped at Christian Science as an escape from it. In a few weeks this condition had disappeared, and since that time we have used no material remedies of any kind, and all the ailments which have come up to be met have been overcome, but not always without help from a practitioner. Among the physical conditions which have been overcome, were a dislocated knee, sunburn, colds, fevers, toothache, catarrh, and headaches.

I mention the demonstration over these physical conditions, as being merely the outward manifestations of great mental and moral healings, and of these I must make mention. Previous to our acceptance of Christian Science, my wife was conscious of hardly a waking moment free from fear of some sort,—fear that our home would take fire, fear that some accident would befall her, fear that our little girl would be overtaken with evil in some form, sickness or accident or some other ill: in short, always fear. This mental state has been entirely eradicated, and in its place is the peace which comes from the consciousness that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need" (Science and Health, p. 494). My own mental condition was almost indescribable. Although brought up in a Christian home, I was at that time steeped in sin, without God, whom I did not want so long as I thought Him responsible for all the want, wo, and suffering which I saw around me. The regeneration in my wife aroused in me a desire to know what had caused it, and although I had previously read Science and Health, I started to read it again, this time in a different frame of mind, and I have found that as I earnestly and constantly try to live what I have learned from this wonderful book, I am becoming a new man, while there has also come to me a degree of the peace that passeth understanding.

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