Testimony of Healing November 24, 1923 Issue

With the desire to help others who may be suffering as...

Edgar S. Marvin

With the desire to help others who may be suffering as I was, I am led to write something of a healing I experienced in Christian Science from a severe condition of heart disease. I sought help from physicians, but was given no hope by the ablest medical authorities I could reach; and after being under their care and depending on drugs for nearly a year, I was sent to Florida, being assured that I could not resist the cold of another western New York winter. My wife accompanied me. When we returned the following spring I found myself no better, but rather worse, my weight having become less than it had been at any time since boyhood.

Some friends spoke to me of Christian Science, but I was greatly prejudiced against what I had been taught to believe was an utter sham, and wholly unchristian. I was, however, given some Christian Science literature and asked to read it. This I grudgingly consented to do, with the result that I became interested, especially in some of the testimonies in the periodicals.

A friend then gave me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; and as I began reading the first chapter, that beautiful chapter on Prayer, I was conscious of a new light being thrown upon the Scriptures, especially upon the teachings of Jesus, such as I had never known before, although I had been a sincere student of the Bible and teacher of a class in the Sunday school. I read the book through, though in a mood so critical as to miss its greater spiritual truths; nevertheless, divine Love did open my understanding in the largest degree possible to my prejudiced and bigoted thought.

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