Testimony of Healing June 2, 1917 Issue

Such happiness has come to me through Christian Science...

Christopher C. V. Reeve

Such happiness has come to me through Christian Science that I wish to tell how beautiful the growth has been, how perfectly logical every step. My first physical healing through the power of Truth was the cure of a long standing case of gall-stones. The only relief given by my physicians had come from an opiate, and I was in a wretched physical condition. At that time—over ten years ago—I was living in San Francisco, and although my wife had been a student of Christian Science for two years, I knew nothing of its teachings. Long before this I had drifted away from my old church life and was quite without religion. I accepted my cure through Christian Science gratefully and without analysis, yet in my heart was the thought that the old suffering would return some day. I did not attend service, but escorted my wife to the Wednesday evening meetings and passed the intervening hour at a theater. Never once did my wife reproach me, or even advise that I study her religion.

About four years ago we removed to Marysville, and love, and that loyalty which I believe to be the duty of a husband, prompted me to share at her side the comments of many of our townspeople, comments of which in a larger city I had not known. So I attended service regularly; but not until a certain Wednesday evening three years ago did the blessed moment come when I realized what a mere clod I was. The testimony of a visitor had interested me and I spoke to him. He responded cordially, and as he left he asked how long I had been a member of the society. The simple and natural question confused me, and I answered hesitatingly that my wife was a member. I was about to add that I was not, when he interrupted with the remark, "Your wife is a member, eh?" No doubt there was love in his glance and in his tone, but to my sense there was a reproach that seared me. At once I began the study of our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and gradually learned in part the truth there revealed. I became a member of the society here and have tried to do my share.

The truth seemed very mysterious to me at first; then I learned that physical healing follows spiritual understanding so naturally that one realizes only with a sudden gleam of joy that the wonderful truth has really come to him. I was soon able to demonstrate for myself, even to help others, finding that to understand the Principle of Christian Science is to gain the power to heal, and each forward step follows as naturally as light dispels darkness.

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