Testimony of Healing January 18, 1913 Issue

For several years I have had abundant reason to be...

A. G. Potts

For several years I have had abundant reason to be thankful for the healing and saving doctrine of Christian Science, and I have occasion every day to rejoice that I was led to investigate its beneficent teachings. More out of curiosity than for any other reason, I attended a Wednesday evening meeting at the invitation of a friend, and I little realized then what would be the result in my life of so doing. What I heard there convinced me that the people who spoke had something I did not possess, something I wanted, for I had become dissatisfied with the doctrines of the church in which I had been brought up and was looking for a religion that promised more practical results.

After reading Science and Health, I was still further convinced that here at last was the very thing for which I was looking, as in spite of the fact that many statements seemed incomprehensible and not a few aroused my antagonism, I nevertheless was compelled to admit the invincible logic of Mrs. Eddy's reasoning. I soon had opportunity to prove for myself whether what I had read was true, for I was taken sick with a severe attack of stomach trouble. Help was asked from a practitioner, and in a surprisingly short time the malady disappeared and there has since been no return of it. More strange than the physical healing at that time, was the wonderful spiritual uplift that accompanied it, although I now know that this is the inevitable result of healing by the divine Mind.

As I continued to study the text-book, the desire grew for a better knowledge of the truth it contained, and one by one proofs of its healing efficacy multiplied. Slowly it began to dawn on me that I must conform my life to the Principle revealed through this book, and at first there was the temptation to rebel, for I thought it would be hard to have to give up my pipe, glass of beer, and "good times" with the boys. Sometimes I wished I had never seen the book, for I thought it demanded too much, and yet I knew that Christian Science must be the truth, or else there was no such thing as absolute truth for mankind to know. It was slowly unfolded to me that Christian Science states facts, what actually exist, and if I seemed to get pleasure from anything which was not in harmony with those statements, it could only be a false sense of pleasure where no pleasure really is. As I got to this point the desire for those things gradually faded out, and in its place came a sense of freedom and of peace, and a keener delight in and appreciation of the clean, wholesome enjoyments of life, of the kind that "addeth no sorrow with it."

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