Testimony of Healing August 25, 1917 Issue

Some few years ago, desiring something higher and better...

Frederick A. Bangs

Some few years ago, desiring something higher and better than I had been experiencing in life, i.e., desiring God, and after searching I knew not for what, I picked up the volume "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. I had read but a chapter or two when I knew I had found that for which I had been longing and looking.

I had read the book through, and had started to read it again, when my reading was interrupted by evil habits coming to the surface and seemingly compelling me to obey their dictates. For some time I drank, smoked, and chewed to excess, forgetting apparently that Christian Science was the truth and could heal me. Finally, however, awakening to the situation and realizing that if I did not wish to continue in this downward path to ruin I had better cease traveling the evil way, I went to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment. Immediately the desire for drinking and smoking left me, and the desire for chewing went shortly afterward. I have never since indulged these habits, nor have I had any desire so to do.

At the time I went to the Christian Science practitioner I was heavily in debt. My first thought was that the only way I could progress under this load was to take advantage of the bankruptcy act; but the thought of taking this measure was abhorrent to me, and the practitioner assured me that God could take care of my every need, if I would but trust Him. Divine Love did take care of me, so that my every need was met naturally and rationally, and a few years afterward I rejoiced in entire freedom from debt.

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