Article April 13, 1918 Issue

Forward Footsteps

HUGH MEWHA

For many years prior to coming to Canada I was a local preacher connected with the Methodist church in Ireland, and as such was recommended to the Methodist church in America. I suppose I should still be associated with that body were it not that a friend had a remarkable healing through Christian Science after medical methods had done their best and failed. This lady was as loyal to her church as I was to mine, and before she would accept treatment she and her husband requested me to get some first-hand information regarding this teaching.

I shall not soon forget the first Christian Science meeting I attended. The whole tone of the service was such a contrast to what I had anticipated, and I knew at once that I was hearing the truth. In all my Biblical studies of former years I had one thing in my favor, and this was that I did not study the Scriptures for the purpose of proving denominational theology but to ascertain the truth. After all my weary wanderings through the wilderness of doubt and error I realized at this service that I had found the link so long looked for, the link of truth between God, good, and man. Of course I at once recommended my friend to apply for Christian Science treatment. She did so, and is to-day a healthy and happy woman. That was between two and three years ago; and I have since then had many personal demonstrations of efficacy efficacy of Christian Science.

If it were a mere theory, or were incapable of being applied, Christian Science would be of no more value to the world to-day than are the traditions of the elders; but its beauty and grandeur lie in the fact that there is no conceivable phase of human experience which it cannot touch and transform. It is true that most people are drawn to its acceptance because of physical healing; yet physical healing is not the alpha nor yet the omega of its teaching. Mrs. Eddy states in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 2): "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness."

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