Testimony of Healing August 27, 1921 Issue

In the second year of the world war, while standing on...

Richard F. Rabe

In the second year of the world war, while standing on a street corner in a mental attitude of mistrust,—mistrusting everybody, even myself, having a fear of becoming a cripple, homeless and penniless, haunted with cowardly suicide thoughts and pronounced by doctors incurable,—I saw a sign stretched across the two sides of the street, advertising a free lecture on Christian Science, in the Municipal Building. I went in when the lecture was about half over and was one of the first to leave. A lady, noticing that I had refused free literature, asked me if I were interested in Christian Science. I answered in the negative, but she induced me to take some of the literature.

I was an atheist, and at my marriage I would not consent to have any minister or priest of any religion perform the ceremony, and my children were forbidden to go to any Sunday school of any religion. One testimony in the Sentinel seemed to impress me very much, but with the thought that my case was hopeless I felt I could prove Christian Science powerless. In leisure hours I went to the public library and found a copy of Der Herold der Christian Science. I knew I had to give Christian Science a fair trial and put it to a test, so I went to a reading room and borrowed the German edition of Science and Health. After the close of the first Wednesday evening testimony meeting which I attended I was advised to go to a practitioner. Never can I forget how I felt after my first visit. I had become a different man, I had found new hope, and it has been rising steadily.

Chronic catarrh of thirty years' standing, and the smoking and drink habits have disappeared. An abscess which I thought would necessitate my going to a hospital the next morning healed almost overnight. A better and healthier life is manifested in our home; the grandchildren go to Sunday school. My gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for Christian Science and for gaining the understanding that God is Love, the only adorable One, is indescribable. It is my desire that this may reach some seeker in the desert and help him to see that, as Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

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