Testimony of Healing September 5, 1914 Issue

With pleasure I give my testimony as an expression of...

William A. Baz

With pleasure I give my testimony as an expression of gratitude for benefits received from Christian Science through the study and application of the rules laid down in its text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy.

About four or five years ago, at the time of a most distressing condition of human existence, I drifted into Christian Science, there to be healed and comforted through the apprehension of its divine Principle. I had suffered for years from headache, nervousness, sleeplessness, and the torture of the fear of insanity, to which I held day and night, believing it to be an inheritance to which I must submit. I had consulted many physicians during these years, and every one of them gave a different name to my trouble. I tried many oculists, and they prescribed strong glasses, claiming that I had strained eyes, a structural defeat, and so on; but I did not notice any benefit, because it was my mentality that needed to be set right. In this condition of pain, distress, poverty, and weakness, mental and physical, I kept moving from place to place in order to change climate and see different people and scenery, thinking thereby to get away from myself. It seems good that I had enough sense left to search a little farther for some truth unknown to me then. Among things and theories, I tried phrenology, mind-readers, etc., to see if they could tell me what was my trouble and give me any remedy or information that would help to cure me. Then, after all these things had failed, I was told to try Christian Science by a man to whom I was telling my trouble, although he said he did not know anything about it but had merely heard of it.

At this stage I was afraid to try anything if it was of a mental nature, for fear of overtaxing my mind, because I was a mental wreck and nervously exhausted. I did not even care to exert myself at all. I was afraid of work, afraid to meet people, also did not want to be responsible for any least undertaking; but I felt very keenly the need of help and strength outside of myself, therefore I went immediately to a Christian Science practitioner and told her of my condition. I had no faith in Christian Science, did not even know what it was, for I had never heard of it before. No wonder I could not see anything in it then. The first time I had a treatment the practitioner bowed her head and prayed. I did not understand what she was doing, and could not see that anything was being done. So I went out of her presence very much disheartened, with the thought that there was nothing else to try, therefore there was no more hope for me. The practitioner, however, was kind enough to offer me her book, Science and Health, that I might take it with me on a trip I was about to make.

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