Testimony of Healing January 5, 1918 Issue

As a Christian minister I always felt that I owed obedience...

Guillaume E. Charles

As a Christian minister I always felt that I owed obedience to God, allegiance to Christ Jesus, and the best of service to my fellow men; yet some years ago I became somewhat dissatisfied and ill, so much so that I went West to a farm in North Dakota for recuperation and a change of work. While there, in 1910, my daughter received from an aunt in Canada a gift subscription to The Christian Science Monitor. We all became interested in reading it, and the daily Christian Science article therein especially appealed to us.

In the spring of 1911 we procured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. My wife was the first to read it, and she had merely begun when she was healed of a disorder which for eight years had resisted hygiene and medicine. I did not read it until the following winter, owing to lack of time, but when I did, this unique book revived my whole being and Christian ambition. It presented to me afresh the gospel truths, and awakened my understanding of the spiritual, eternal demands of God and of His Christ, my duty to Him and to the world. All at once it dawned upon me that I must set out again for a place in the active ministry, somewhere, anywhere. I supplied a few pulpits during many months, and then divine Providence led me to Boston into the work of another denomination. For three years I worked with diligence and joy as pastor of the French Evangelical (Congregational) Church.

All this while the religious tenets of Christian Science were before me as something worthy of attention and meditation, and they finally became for me a matter of faith, life, and thanksgiving. I believed in Christian Science and its practice of healing through the power of God. I was also experiencing God's help and guidance in my affairs and realizing as never before the control which Truth and Love hold over all. Moreover, in Boston we had found and gladly seized the opportunity of attending the services and also lectures at The Mother Church, so that we gently grew in the knowledge of Christian Science, though we had as yet no relation with Christian Scientists.

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