Testimony of Healing December 13, 1924 Issue

With the words, "I would to God, that not only thou,...

Emma Read Newton

With the words, "I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds," Paul concluded his address before Agrippa. Even so do Christian Scientists yearn to have all mankind know God as revealed through the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, and to have them share in an ever increasing freedom from bondage of every name.

Born in Portuguese West Africa of missionary parents, I grew up in the atmosphere of those who knew the joy of loving God and serving man; and for the blessing of a home where the Bible was daily bread, I cannot thank God enough. Years later, in Canada, Christian Science was presented to me, and my ignorant prejudice and opposition to it subsided from the time I began reading its marvelous textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. Since then my understanding of the Bible has grown clearer; I know God more intimately; and I love my neighbor less selfishly.

To cite some of the good things which have come to me through Christian Science, I would mention the healing of a hemorrhage of seven weeks' duration and of pneumonic influenza, the advantage of much more education than I should have enjoyed otherwise, and the ability to adjust myself quickly to work of varying demands in a foreign country; but more valuable to others, as well as to me, is the regeneration and unfoldment in character. Selfish ambition, pride of intellect, and criticism of others are being replaced a little more each day by the ambition to be pure in heart, to be humbly conscious of the omnipresence of Mind, and to obey the precept of Christ Jesus, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

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