Testimony of Healing May 14, 1921 Issue

What has Christian Science done for me? Perhaps the...

Alexander F. Primrose

What has Christian Science done for me? Perhaps the best way to answer that question will be to show the contrast between conditions now and what they were when I was a schoolboy at a large boarding school. What brought about ill health in those days does not matter, but I always seemed to be suffering from minor complaints which forced me to be sent to the sick house with great regularity. This continued after I left school and until I heard of Christian Science, but from that time on I have not had to spend a single day in bed—and this is many years now—or take any material remedy, or consult a doctor.

When the war broke out in August, 1914, I was in the British army and served until some months after the armistice was signed. During all that period the only times I had to go to the medical officer were for inspection for active service, and then I was each time passed as "A." Although I had volunteered for active service overseas and was always ready to go if required I was retained on coast defense work on island stations off the east coast of Scotland. There was a general belief that one could not spend more than two winters at these stations without its affecting one's health, but I was able to spend over four years—including five winters—without a break, and with only seven days' leave each year, without any ill effects at all. It was only the understanding I had obtained through Christian Science that man is the emanation of divine Life, Truth, and Love which enabled me to rise above the suggestions that monotonous and confined surroundings, easterly gales, coupled with a sense of responsibility and overwork could affect man—the image and likeness of God. I am specially grateful for this, as it has often seemed much easier to meet physical danger and acute ailments than chronic ones. In reality it is not, because one is as much a fiction as the other, and neither have any more power than moonbeams have to melt a frozen stream.

During all this period the Christian Science periodicals were a great help and joy to me and on one occasion I had a striking proof of the value of studying the Manual of The Mother Church. I had been sent to a new station where I knew very few of the other officers. I was hoping some of them might be interested in Christian Science but I discovered after a few days that several of them, including the doctor, were interested in hypnotism and kindred subjects. My first thought was that if these subjects were discussed with me I would soon be able to expose any of that nonsense.

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