Testimony of Healing August 4, 1923 Issue

In the year 1916, what seemed the climax of over a...

Charles C. Blanchard

In the year 1916, what seemed the climax of over a quarter of a century of suffering came to me. I had been afflicted with what had been variously diagnosed by medical men as gastralgia, acute indigestion, gallstones, ulcers of the stomach, heart disease, and even appendicitis. I had consulted some of the best physicians in Boston, Providence, New York, and Chicago, where I had been laid up in hotels by these attacks, but could get no help except through hypodermics of morphine. The advice to have an "exploratory incision" I refused to heed.

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity," it is said; and I had certainly reached that point when I turned to Christian Science. Owing to my mental condition and my unbelief, the practitioner at first did not seem to help me, and I went away very much discouraged. I remember that I protested to him vigorously when he talked with me about sin, and told him that I was not conscious of being wicked. I had prayed earnestly to God many times for relief without any apparent results, and the practitioner had seemingly been no more successful than I had.

My malady seemed to grow worse; and I finally became so irritable, unhappy, and inefficient that I resigned my position as general agent of one of the large life insurance companies, giving up a lucrative position. About that time my wife became seriously ill, and asked for help in Christian Science; and a practitioner and a Christian Science nurse were employed to care for her. This proved a great blessing to all of us, for while reading the Lesson-Sermons with the nurse for the benefit of my wife, I began to realize the truth about Christian Science and its healing power, and to make vigorous efforts to be healed. I learned that "seeking is not sufficient. It is striving that enables us to enter," as Mrs. Eddy says on page 10 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

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