Testimony of Healing June 26, 1920 Issue

As I feel that I owe all that I am, even my earthly existence,...

Pleasant W. Bales

As I feel that I owe all that I am, even my earthly existence, to Christian Science, it is with thankfulness to God, profound gratitude to Mrs. Eddy, and with a hope that some one else may be benefited, that I give this testimony to what Christian Science has done for me. In the fall of 1913 I was stricken with apoplexy. The doctor was called and I lay unconscious for several hours. All the assistance possible was rendered, and I finally regained consciousness. In a few days I had partially recovered, and was up and around the house until the following April, when I was stricken again, and rendered helpless. I remained in this condition for some time without any hope of relief, the attending physicians having told my family that my case was hopeless, and it was only a matter of a short time until all would be over. At this point a friend, who had been healed by Christian Science, called to see me and asked us to try Science, and since I was in this hopeless condition the family consented. They asked me if I would consent to Christian Science treatment and I told them I had no faith in it but to do as they liked.

They sent at once for a practitioner, and from the very first treatment I began to improve. In a short time I could sit up and read the Bible and Science and Health and study the Lesson-Sermon, and in a few weeks I was able, with a little assistance, to go to church, and continued to go, and to read and study, and I now know that I am healed of that trouble. I also had chronic bowel trouble, from which I had suffered ever since I came home from the army in 1865, and that has been entirely healed. I was an inveterate user of tobacco for nearly seventy years and have been entirely healed of that habit and many other minor diseases, and from the effects of accidents. I go to the city regularly, look after my business personally, and enjoy good health.

Last, but not least, I want to mention that after my wife, the choice of my youth and my lifelong companion, and I had lived together for fifty-six years she passed on. Her personal presence and association are indeed missed, yet without grief; thus I find that Christian Science is not only a present help in time of sickness and sin but in every discordant condition in which a human being may be placed. After all these wonderful healings we hear the Master saying, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." No one outside of Christian Science could conceive of any greater works than physical healings such as were wrought by the Master, until we go unto the Father, to the divine Principle of all being, and there receive the spiritual uplifting; then we can realize that the physical healing is only a part of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 150), "Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world." With the spiritual uplifting, and its illumination, my desire is so to live that I may be of some assistance to others who may be seeking the divine Principle, Love.

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