Testimony of Healing October 30, 1920 Issue

I have often longed to tell the whole world of my healing...

Cornelius Hedg-peth

I have often longed to tell the whole world of my healing in Christian Science and of my deep gratitude to God and to all who are living this practical truth. I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing but because I was heart hungry for an understanding of God that would render Him of more than emotional or theoretical help in everyday affairs. The teaching of Christian Science that God is ever present Principle and this Principle is Love, has satisfied that heart hunger and is still satisfying it.

I had not long to wait after the first glimpse of divine Principle, before the efficacy and availability of Christian Science were proved to me in a case of physical need. I was at work cutting posts in the mountains of Colorado. It was some two and a half miles from my camp to where any one lived, though another camp which was visited occasionally was within a quarter of a mile of mine. One day I became ill with ptomaine poisoning. I was alone, too ill to walk, and apparently helpless. I managed to get to my feet but fell again. Then my eye fell on the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and an old copy of the Sentinel. I picked up the Sentinel in the hope of finding out how some of the healings told of were accomplished, for I knew I must have help soon. Then I turned to Science and Health and read (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." I clung to this steadfastly till 10 a.m. next day, when I was able to walk to the camp near me and leave a note telling of my condition. I managed to get back to my own camp again and lay down, and at nine o'clock that night help came. I was taken down to the settlements, a practitioner of Christian Science gave me one treatment, and three days later I went back to work, a well man. This proved to me conclusively that man is never alone or helpless. His God, divine Principle, is ever present and is equal to the need, whatever it may be.

The light thrown on the Bible by the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, has rendered it a treasure house, without a closed door, to me. Never has Christian Science failed to meet my need when I complied with its simple rules. I feel more gratitude each day for Christian Science, and I know that my gratitude must grow still greater as I realize more clearly the ever presence of this omniactive Principle, God, that Christian Science has revealed.

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