Testimony of Healing August 19, 1922 Issue

To me, Christian Science is not only true religion; it...

Nathan Wallace

To me, Christian Science is not only true religion; it is also the panacea for all human discord. I was reared in a strict Jewish atmosphere, in Russian Poland. It was the ambition of my parents that I should some day become a Talmudist, or Rabbi. At four years of age I was sent to chader, a private Hebrew school, where nothing but Hebrew and Yiddish is taught. As I grew in knowledge my period for study extended to about ten hours a day. At twelve years of age I came to America, full of religion and blind belief, where I continued my studies for about two years. Shortly after, my belief began to waver; and it did not take me very long in this "land of the free" to lose my religion and belief in "the unknown God" (as is characteristic of the majority of the younger Jewish element who have immigrated to this country). I became a free thinker and a free doer; and, in due time, woe beset me as a consequence.

In the year 1911, while a resident of New York city, I was obliged to stop my studies at a school of medicine because I had contracted tuberculosis of the lungs. A friend sent me the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Failing to find in that book a descriptive chart of lungs and germs, I did not think it was necessary to investigate it; so I put it in my trunk. In about three months I had improved sufficiently to return to school. After graduating, I was advised to go to Denver, Colorado, where I might regain my health. Six weeks after my arrival in this city (1913), I was obliged to go to a hospital; and, up to 1917, I was confined in the local hospitals six different times, and operated upon twice. On my last journey to one of the hospitals, when it seemed that there was nothing else left to do, I called for that book which was in my trunk. After reading it for an hour, I got up and began to help my fellow-patients. In about two months I left the hospital, and put the book back in the trunk. Shortly afterwards I contracted nervous dyspepsia, and after medicine failed to help me I realized that it was necessary for me to alter my course.

While floundering upon the sea of error, there came that desire which sometimes prompts transgressors of God's law,—to do away with one's self. It was then that Christian Science found me. It is the "still small voice" that pleads with us continually: "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." At first I was reluctant to accept it, thinking it was another belief; but when the need became imperative I was led to inquire into and to analyze what Christian Science is. Through diligent study of the textbook, and right application of its teachings, I have been enabled to prove that Christian Science is not a blind belief, but the truth. Each individual can prove the efficacy of Christian Science, which liberates and regenerates in proportion as he allows the divine Mind, Principle, Love, which Christ Jesus expressed, to govern him.

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