Testimony of Healing December 1, 1923 Issue

A seemingly worn-out blacksmith at the age of sixty-seven,...

Edward H. Schmults

A seemingly worn-out blacksmith at the age of sixty-seven, I began attending services at the local Christian Science church, not with any hope of being healed of diseases which I had come to consider chronic and incurable, but because I had learned to love and respect many of the Scientists with whom I came in daily contact. Through the kindness of one of the members I was made the recipient of that wondeful book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy; and at once I began its study. It was not easy for me to understand it even after three years of earnest effort; but still I read, and continued my attendance at the services, in the hope of becoming a better man through gaining a better understanding of God.

Finally my most obstinate trouble—varicose veins, from which I had suffered for more than thirty years—made me a prisoner at home; and as I could not attend the services, the Bible and Science and Health were the more earnestly devoured. Thus on a certain Sunday, while my lame and unlcerated leg lay pillowed on a chair, I began reading our textbook more understandingly, gaining its spiritual intent; so much so that the leg was forgotten in the uplifted thought which came from reading of man's oneness or unity with his Maker. Absent from the body, I was "present with the Lord" so absolutely that when I lifted my leg from its resting place I found it entirely healed. Unable to trust my own vision I called my wife; and when she saw the wonder and asked me what it was, I said, "It is from God."

Upon a later Sunday, when I was being examined as a candidate for church membership, my hearing was as miraculously restored. The best aurists, more than a score of years before, had declared such restoration impossible, because the ear drum had been punctured. Finally, lead poisoning in my right leg, caused by the dissolution of two rifle bullets received while a scout in Custer's army, was entirely overcome through the teachings of Christian Science. Thus to-day, although, as age is reckoned, eleven years older than when I first sought the blessings of Christian Science, I am daily at my forge, no longer a worn-out blacksmith, but rather, a new man in Christ Jesus.

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