Testimony of Healing November 27, 1920 Issue

After spending many years in religious work of an...

W. Fred Gallagher

After spending many years in religious work of an evangelical character, I finally entered a theological seminary, with the idea of being ordained a minister. At the beginning of my third and final year in the seminary, I found myself in a chaotic state of mind with regard to the teaching about God. I had tried to think of God as Love, but had been taught from childhood to believe that God had foreordained practically every act and motive of my life, and when certain conditions began to manifest themselves in connection with my own life, after all I had seen of sin and its results in my work, which had been to a great extent among the poorer classes of the large cities, I determined that if all this were God's doing, then I wanted Him not.

At this time I had a complete physical and nervous breakdown, and was compelled to leave the seminary. I then tried to keep away from every religious influence, in which endeavor I succeeded fairly well until a trial came which seemed to be sapping my very mentality.

Through the kindness of a friend, I was urged to try Christian Science, and in doing so found the God I had been looking for all my life—a true and living God, who is Spirit and who is Life and Love and Truth—and was immediately healed of the condition then existing. This caused me to study "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and all the other writings of Mary Baker Eddy, and a few months afterwards I was healed in five treatments of a trouble for which the doctors said there was no relief but in an operation. I am more than thankful for the spiritual uplift which has come to me through these and other healings, for the new meaning which my Bible has for me, for the call to active service. My heart is filled with gratitude to Mary Baker Eddy because she so lived and studied the truth that she became the discoverer of the truth that has been revealed to us, showing us how to know God aright.—W. Fred Gallagher, New York, N. Y.

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