Testimony of Healing May 27, 1916 Issue

It was about twenty-five years ago that Christian Science...

E. Everett MacGill

It was about twenty-five years ago that Christian Science was introduced to the quiet little Wisconsin village of which I was at that time a resident, and well do I remember the manner in which it was received by those who did not then accept its teachings. The objections to what we supposed it to be were pronounced, and we tried to persuade those who accepted it to drop it. It did not seem to us possible that the healing power of Truth as demonstrated by Christ Jesus and his followers in the days of primitive Christianity could be discovered by a woman of our day. We were so very skeptical that our prejudice was not destroyed even though we witnessed the proofs, the healing and reforming value of Christian Science.

I did not then understand the kindness and patience which the Christian Scientists exhibited, but I can now see how they had grown in grace until they would not see the evil by which we were allowing ourselves to be influenced, as being anything real or a part of the real child of God. The time soon came, however, when I too needed help. Materia medica was given a trial for several years, until I was told by a specialist that I had a form of skin disease that he could not cure, as he had exhausted all the means at his command without success. In the mean time Christian Science had been recommended to my wife and boy, and treatment given to them with very satisfactory results. I was finally ready to ask for help, and then and there the seemingly great wall of prejudice melted away and the journey from sense to Soul began.

Physical healing and spiritual uplift were one and the same to me, for after the first treatment I laid off glasses, and a moral reformation and a new interest in the study of the Bible began. It was about two years before all evidence of the eruption was gone. The healing seemed slow, and during this time those of my family who had recommended Christian Science became discouraged and suggested that I return to the specialist; but perseverance and the loving patience of the practitioner kept me studying until the healing was complete. I have since been a daily student of the Bible, as well as of Science and Health and other Christian Science literature, and have received untold benefits. It has become a real pleasure in the home, the church, the office, and everywhere, to know something of the joy of service, how to rest in action, and to seek my own in another's good. (See Science and Health, p. 518.)

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