Testimony of Healing October 24, 1925 Issue

It was in the fall of 1913 that I first thought seriously...

Lester F. Lewellen

It was in the fall of 1913 that I first thought seriously of Christian Science. While talking to me one day, a friend said, "What is Mind?" As I studied over this, I knew that Mind was not brains; it was more than that. A few hours later he said to me, "Christian Science teaches that Mind is God." This, for the first time in my life, gave me the God of intelligence, of whom I could have, at least in a small degree, some comprehension.

I began immediately to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and also to attend the Christian Science church services. Within three weeks I was healed of a chronic bowel trouble. I had taken a laxative every day for more than a year for this trouble, and a specialist had told me there was nothing more he could do to help me. The healing was permanent.

Previous to this time I had gone through two long-drawnout attacks of inflammatory rheumatism, the last attack leaving my joints sore, aching, and at times lame and swollen. I read and studied, but this condition did not seem to be benefited. Then one day while I was downtown, about two months after I began to study Christian Science, the condition became acute. With the aid of a traffic officer, who helped me across the street intersection, I reached the Christian Science Reading Room. While I was sitting there, this thought came to me: Now if Christian Science is true, then this condition is not true, but is unreal and only a false belief. I know I doubted the truth of that statement when I thought it; but I finally got momentarily free enough to take from the table the Christian Science textbook; and then I started to read. Different ones have asked me what pages I read while in the Reading Room. I do not know. But this I do know, that in less than one hour from the time I went there I came out healed. The pain, soreness, lameness, stiffness, and swelling were entirely gone. That was more than eleven years ago; and the trouble has never once returned. Later I was healed of eczema, from which I had suffered for more than ten years.

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