Testimony of Healing December 24, 1921 Issue

Ever since I became a student of Christian Science I...

Jethro Baker

Ever since I became a student of Christian Science I have found the testimonies published in The Christian Science Journal and Sentinel a source of encouragement and inspiration, and I have sometimes felt a pang of regret that I had no great physical healing to record, so that I might add my expression of gratitude to those appearing in our periodicals. I have seen, however, that where there is cause for gratitude there is cause for testimony, and no physical healing could, of itself, result in half the gratitude I feel for Christian Science and all that it means to me.

For more than ten years Christian Science has been my only remedy for all discords. During this time accidents, influenza, blood poisoning, severe colds, business worries, and many other minor difficulties have been overcome in the exact proportion that I have applied the truth understandingly, and there has been a gradual unfoldment of my understanding of the nature of God, and of man's relationship to Him, which surpasses all other blessings received.

When Christian Science found me I was in great mental darkness. Material existence, with all its sorrows, sickness, and death was to me a mystery. I earnestly sought the solution of world problems, but became more confused and disheartened, until I gave up the search, concluding that the problems were insoluble, and decided to make the best of things as I found them. I had lost belief in the denominational concept of God, and although I thought there must be a Supreme Being somewhere, I for any practical purposes had no God. I became very cynical toward religion, and undesirable habits and modes of thought, for which I felt a sense of shame, were gaining a greater and greater hold on me. There seemed to be no way of escape, although the conviction grew that "the end of those things is death."

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