Testimony of Healing February 12, 1921 Issue

Christian Science was brought to my attention about five...

George Bagby Campbell

Christian Science was brought to my attention about five years ago. For the reader to fully appreciate my condition at that time, it will be necessary for me to relate a few incidents in my life, as my condition was the result of a combination of circumstances. When I was but five years of age my mother passed on and our home was broken up. Most of my life, therefore, has been in the environment of boarding schools and boarding houses. In my early teens I acquired the habit of drinking in order to be sociable. Cigarette smoking and other deplorable habits soon followed, which caused me great physical suffering in later years. While a law student at a southern university, a domestic difficulty arose which resulted in my being separated from my only sister, who was a few years my junior. A few days prior to my graduation from the university I was forced to give up the idea of law and seek more immediately remunerative employment. I finally got a position that barely paid a living wage. I was getting in debt every day and saw no hope of a change of position. I became very depressed and cynical from discouragement and sought relief in drinking. I was arrested one night in an unconscious condition from drink, and found that my overcoat and some personal effects, highly valued by me as keepsakes, had been stolen from me.

Shortly after this, Christian Science was brought to my attention. After a few weeks' study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was able to do without glasses worn for eight years for astigmatism. I have been healed of a number of physical difficulties, one of which was a severely sprained ankle, which was completely healed in one treatment. I am free from the habits of drinking and cigarette smoking, and later secured a good position in the legal department of a large corporation.

I am particularly grateful for the spiritual awakening and for "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding," that I am now privileged to enjoy, and also for my love for the Bible, which before was a closed book. All I am and all I have, I owe to Christian Science. My only ambition to-day is to grow in grace, to live a life of purity and unselfed love, and to help my fellow man on his journey from matter to Spirit. May my sincerity and gratitude for this wonderful truth be proved by the standard set by Jesus, "Ye shall know them by their fruits."—

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