Testimony of Healing December 19, 1925 Issue

A kind doctor had left a formidable array of pills and...

Roscoe Irving Lampson with contributions from Bina Truesdale Lampson

A kind doctor had left a formidable array of pills and liquids beside my bed with instructions to my wife as to how they should be given to me. My illness, which had been diagnosed as influenza, seemed quite severe and also very real to me; and although I had had several so-called narrow escapes, I was seized with a sudden fear that I was passing on.

Then came to me the thought of Christian Science. A lady had told me a year before that God is Life, Truth, and Love; and although I did not even try to get the meaning of what she was saying, I now had such a strong desire to understand what she had said and to know more of the truth, that I rose, dressed, and drove my car three miles to the business part of the city and went into a large office building in search of a Christian Science practitioner. Knowing nothing of Christian Science, I was surprised at the practitioner's questions, which at that time seemed absolutely irrelevant. I shall never cease to be grateful to this man for the love and patience he expressed to me, and for his advice that I purchase the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I purchased the book at the Christian Science Reading Room, and took it to my office to examine it. I read the first four lines on page 1: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals thesick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." I pondered them for some time, and the two words "absolute faith" stood out clearly, and shone as a great light. As the truth dawned on me that I had found the "pearl of great price," a great joy came to me, and I suddenly realized that the fever had gone and I was healed.

I was indeed hungry for the truth, and did little else for two weeks but read the textbook; and when I had finished, I laid aside a truss and arch supports that I had worn for nearly twenty years. Then I found to my great joy that the liquor habit, which I had fought desperately to overcome on account of a loving wife and four small children, had gone never to return; and with it the tobacco habit of many years' standing. My health became greatly improved, and my morals rapidly underwent a complete change for the better; and while I did not then understand the Principle that had healed me, like the blind man spoken of in John, I could say, "One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see."

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