Testimony of Healing December 6, 1913 Issue

Perhaps my experience in becoming a convert to the teachings...

Grace Roberta Wasson

Perhaps my experience in becoming a convert to the teachings of Christian Science has not been widely different from that of other; and while none should fail to credit Christian Science with calling them from a life wherein they were not fulfilling their noblest purposes, the tendency to look backward seldom proves profitable, and too often causes one to stumble, as one usually travels in the direction in which he looks. In overcoming error we are told to forget "those things which are behind;" and this is not least among the many valuable lessons I have learned in Christian Science.

My home in the West was shattered when my father was stricken with paralysis. He was an ambitious dentist, and for many years president of the Kansas College of Dental Surgery at Kansas City, Mo. From a child I had been possessed with a sympathetic desire to relieve physical suffering. To this end, after nursing my father through the most critical period of his illness, I came to Chicago and entered a homeopathic medical college with the determination to perfect myself in medical science, that I might restore my father to health. I was consumed with the fear that he might pass on before I could complete my course, therefore I studied night and day in the hope of discovering some sure remedy for his relief; but my eyes failed me after about one year of tireless study, and I was forced to abandon my purpose.

At that time Christian Science was only a name to me, for I knew nothing of its teachings; but as I began to think seriously of religion, trying to locate the connecting link between the ancient Christ teachings and present-day codes, and to reconcile my former religious opinions with modern business methods, there appeared serious discrepancies. I then began a systematic perusal, as my eyes would permit, of various religious creeds, including the philosophies of the far East. Each had its good points, but all had the same fault,—they were unsatisfying, illogical, and fell short of the one vital requirement, viz., a rational explanation of God as the true basis of every religion or philosophy.

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