Testimony of Healing March 4, 1922 Issue

Some years ago, after a life spent in seeking happiness...

Robert Graham

Some years ago, after a life spent in seeking happiness by material means, I found myself a physical wreck, notwithstanding long and faithful search for health. Numerous doctors had prescribed for me and much time had been spent at so-called health resorts, but without avail, as I was suffering from chronic bronchitis, acute asthma, heart trouble, and general functional disorder of many years' standing.

I had been brought up in a Christian denomination, but early in life ceased attending church; consequently, at what seemed to be the end of an earthly career, I was entirely without hope in either this world or the next. At this stage the doctor, in whose charge I then was, advised my wife that all that he could do for me had been done, and that I could not live much longer. Next morning I was told of this decision and the suggestion was made that we try Christian Science. Having read everything written during the previous ten years against Christian Science, and not being aware of the fact that these writers were ignorant of the subject they presumed to discuss, I held a firm belief that Mrs. Eddy's teaching was arrant nonsense; but being very weak and in constant pain, I felt willing to try anything which promised relief, however absurd it might seem. In six weeks I was healed by Christian Science through the work of a faithful practitioner; that is to say, I had a physical healing but did not appreciate or realize the truth that had made me free from the ills of the flesh.

On page 240 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," we read that "either by suffering or by Science" we come into a knowledge of the truth. It was by the "suffering" route I came, for after my first healing the old pleasures still seemed alluring, with the result that other physical and mental disorders became apparent. A badly sprained ankle was healed in a few days, and other lesser evils were destroyed through Christian Science; yet the light did not reach me. Finally a high salaried position I had held for many years was discontinued and a business venture, in which were invested all my earthly belongings, collapsed, leaving me in bondage to nervous prostration, which lasted for four months, during which period I suffered the tortures of hell. Want and woe of every description seemed real, thoughts of murder and suicide recurred frequently, but

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