Testimony of Healing March 10, 1917 Issue

When Christian Science revealed to me the truth of being, I...

E. Wyly Grier

When Christian Science revealed to me the truth of being, I was, so far as my relationship to God was concerned, a rudderless derelict. What little spiritual food I obtained was from the best of the books which I read,—prose and verse, fiction and fact. Intellectually it was all very well, but spiritually it was not a very nutritious diet, and I was conscious of suffering from spiritual lack. Perhaps my highest incentives to right conduct—and these were often ineffectual—were the lives of the best people around me, especially my father and mother; but the hunger remained.

In 1905 I went to Concord, N. H., to do some professional work, and on several occasions saw Mrs. Eddy riding in her carriage. My work entails an analytical scrutiny of faces, and I read in hers the fact that Christian Science had for its Leader a woman of extraordinary significance of appearance. In 1907 I went to a Christian Science Sunday service, and was impressed that Science and Health contained something I had never heard from any of the pulpits of my former days, namely, essential truth. In a desultory way I then investigated this teaching, and my interest slowly deepened. I was continually astonished to find that the idealism of Christian Science was loftier than my own structureless imaginings, and that with all its elevation of thought it was strictly, inexorably logical. I found God something more than a first cause, and—strange as may seem the necessity to state it—wholly good. The gods of Greek mythology, which my professional work obliged me not unwillingly to study, were superhumanly immoral; and the Hebrew Jehovah, whom I had been rather coercively urged to adore, seemed to have most of the human failings except the sensual. But in Christian Science I found that spiritual interpretation of the Scriptures which includes at the outset a knowledge of God,—a God whose consciousness cannot for a moment include evil.

In the spring of 1913 a boy of mine was instantaneously healed by absent treatment of a baffling disease of the eyes, which, so far from being cured by medical science, had not even been clearly diagnosed. Other healings have taken place in my family since then, but the healing element in Christian Science was not what originally attracted me, although through it I have overcome recurrent bilious attacks and was instantaneously healed of an acute attack which seemed like ptomaine poisoning. It was a long time before I recognized the necessity of healing as a proof of the truth of that gospel which it should invariably accompany.

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