Testimony of Healing September 23, 1916 Issue

Seventeen years ago, when a very sick man and in a sorry...

A. L. Hunt

Seventeen years ago, when a very sick man and in a sorry plight in many ways, I became a student of Christian Science. Till then I knew nothing about this teaching, nothing of its healing influence, neither did I realize what a practitioner was. Although having a large acquaintance, I knew but one Christian Scientist and had never talked with any one on the subject; indeed, I would not allow any one to speak to me about it. It is apparent to me now that I was egotistic, bigoted, and strongly prejudiced.

At the time the study of Christian Science was taken up, I had practised medicine just twenty years and was very confident I understood the cause of disease and its cure. I was suffering from several diseases considered incurable from a medical point of view, and why should I presume they were curable by any other method of healing? It therefore did not occur to me that I needed healing or that I could be healed through Christian Science. Then one night about ten o'clock I began to study "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. After reading the Preface I went to bed, slept soundly, and arose next morning healed of a disease of twenty years' standing. Following this I studied the text-book three or four hours each day, and the mental cleansing that took place in my being in the first week's study was a crisis in my life. It was a moral epoch dating the beginning of a transformed character.

Christian Science has been an education to me. It has taught me to think according to Principle, and has shown me that, as our Leader says, "one can never go up, until one has gone down in his own esteem" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 356). I knew nothing of God until I learned of Him in Christian Science, and was uncertain whether I wished to know Him. The Bible meant nothing to me, and all religionists were dubbed fanatics, controlled by superstition. The world apparently needed reformation, but I was certain it could not be reformed. It was, however, quickly revealed to me through the study of Science and Health that the way to reform the world is to begin by reforming one's self.

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