Testimony of Healing August 20, 1921 Issue

For over eighteen years prior to my gaining a knowledge...

James S. Barron

For over eighteen years prior to my gaining a knowledge of Christian Science, I had, because of my human ambition, always made money, but had repeatedly lost it. After becoming interested in Christian Science, although I had seemingly been successful, the money I had accumulated was once more taken from me, until I was down to the point where I had but a few dollars to my name, with my business gone and nothing left but this small sum to make a new start. I was still ready to go on fighting, but it suddenly came to me that I had been making a most exhaustive human effort for eighteen years, only to arrive at this point. Therefore, what did my human effort avail? "Man's extremity is God's opportunity." I went to a practitioner and told her I was ready to take my stand for the truth and that if she would show me how to apply Christian Science to my everyday affairs I was ready and willing to be led by Truth.

From that time on I did faithfully strive to apply what I knew of the truth and relied on Principle to an extent that I had not thought it possible to rely on anything which I could not see or touch, and with the increased understanding which came to me through the sincere efforts of a practitioner and my willingness to be led, my needs were met more generously than they had ever been met before. I had previously considered myself "hard-headed" and practical and thought that I knew what "good business" is, but the unfolding of the truth to my consciousness was constantly showing me the many errors in what is ordinarily considered "good business." Since that time problems have come up to be met in business where the advice of friends and associates has been, "Let it alone," yet, through reliance on Principle, things which have seemed utterly impossible from the human standpoint have been accomplished.

When my wife and small daughter developed symptoms of influenza I called upon a practitioner for treatment, and shortly thereafter my wife was healed, but probably because of our unconscious fear for our daughter, she became worse and seemed to be burning up with fever. We constantly declared the truth and did our work faithfully, and although the child was delirious during the night and still had a high fever in the morning, accompanied with a severe cough, when she later on asked to get up, we took her up, dressed her, and she was never put back to bed except at her regular hours, although the claim persisted for several days, but each day she improved, until on the seventh day she was completely healed. It is hard to express in words my deep thankfulness to God and my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for having made the truth available to us at all times, and especially in times of extremity.

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