Testimony of Healing October 6, 1923 Issue

As with so many others, Christian Science was my last...

James H. Topham

As with so many others, Christian Science was my last recourse, when it should have been my first. I was a constant sufferer from vertigo in a severe form, and I made the usual round of allopath, osteopath, and chiropractor, but continued to get worse, finally resigning all hope of recovery.

Just at the time of my greatest despondency, in the spring of 1919, a friend lent me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, stating that several members of her family had been greatly helped by reading it. I gladly and eagerly commenced at once to study the book; and almost immediately a feeling of hopefulness overcame the despondency previously prevailing. The conviction was forced on me that Mrs. Eddy was a messenger of Truth, with a divine message of comfort and cheer for discouraged humanity. The vertigo gradually gave way before the scientific treatment of a kind and sympathetic practitioner, and finally disappeared altogether, as darkness before light. During the same period I was healed of lesser, but annoying troubles,—of constipation, rupture, and the craving for tobacco. After indulging in the use of the weed for forty years, I completely lost all desire for it. I have taken no medicine, and worn no support now for three years, and have felt no need for them.

If my physical improvement has been a source of great comfort to me, much more so my spiritual gain. I had been a professing Christian for thirty-five years before identifying myself with the Church of Christ, Scientist; but I have now found that mere belief and profession do not bring the happiness and comfort realized by practice and demonstration. Humility and gratitude should be the two leading virtues of the genuine Christian Scientist. By that standard the true Christian Scientist is judged. "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name."

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