Testimony of Healing November 6, 1915 Issue

I have received so many blessings since taking up the...

Sam B. Metcalfe

I have received so many blessings since taking up the study of Christian Science about five years ago, that I feel I would not be doing my duty to my fellow men if I did not offer my testimony for publication.

I had suffered for more than ten years from a skin eruption, had tried many remedies, and had the services of about nine physicians, no one of whom was able to relieve the pain or check the spread of the disease, and I was finally told by the last physician that he thought my case incurable. A short time after this a friend advised me to try Christian Science and gave me some literature. I then secured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy and began my studies systematically and earnestly, so that with the aid of a Christian Science practitioner I was healed in a few months. I had also been under medical treatment for chronic stomach and bowel disorders and hay-fever for about ten years before I knew of the power of Truth, but all of these ailments, and many others of a minor nature, were healed very quickly by Christian Science. I can truthfully say that I have not tasted medicine of any kind since I began to read Science and Health.

When I became interested in Christian Science I was engaged in the saloon business and had about all the habits which go with that business, such as gambling in all forms, drinking, and dissipating in general. I had no desire to give up any of these habits, because I thought I was enjoying them and that they were all right so long as I could afford them. Probably if the Scientist who mentioned Christian Science to me had said it would be necessary to give up my business or any of these habits before I could be healed I would never have taken it up, for I only wished to be healed of my diseases. It did not take very long, however, for me to find out that Christian Science is a great deal more than a physical healing agency, for I had read the text-book only a few weeks when I noticed that there was no longer any desire to gamble, drink, or do many other things that I had formerly enjoyed. Finally my business became uninteresting to me and I wanted to get away from it. I have now been out of it for nearly three years.

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Testimony of Healing

In April, 1910, I called on a specialist with my daughter,...