Testimony of Healing November 17, 1917 Issue

When I first took notice of Christian Science, it was...

Thomas C. Clayton with contributions from Leslie Clayton

When I first took notice of Christian Science, it was with an atitude of contempt, though I had never looked between the covers of Science and Health. When I finally gained the consent of mortal egotism to regard Christian Science with some respect, it was not for physical healing, but because of the effect of its teachings upon others. I have however frequently experienced its beneficial effects in relieving pain and restoring health and comfort. For many years I suffered intensely from nervous headache. Twenty years ago I was released from that bondage through Christian Science, and although for several years there were occasional symptoms of the trouble, a little application of the truth was sufficient to cause them to vanish like mist before the sun.

I also suffered from the frequent presence of gallstones; but one treatment in Christian Science freed me from that trouble seventeen years ago, and I have had no symptom of it since. Among my acquaintances there is much comment on my general health, strength, and activity, on my youthful disposition and temperament, although I am past sixty-five years of age. When engaged in manual labor I have worked side by side with men of less than half my age, and my part of the work has never fallen behind.

The experience which has afforded me the greatest peace and joy was in regard to my work. Christian Science has inspired me with moral courage to do that which I clearly ought to do, regardless of criticism. As a young man I obtained a university education, and for many years taught with success; but like many others I thought teaching too slow, and so tried other lines of work, with only indifferent results. I had qualified for a professional vocation, but followed vocations requiring hard manual labor. So long as I continued such lines of industry, no matter how diligently and faithfully I labored, a sense of limitation oppressed me.

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