Testimony of Healing March 21, 1925 Issue

During 1918, I had occasion to visit one of the best...

Agnes T. Endley

During 1918, I had occasion to visit one of the best specialists in Johannesburg, and he informed me that I had internal polypous growths of several years' standing. He also said I must ultimately submit to what might prove to be a rather serious operation, as "nothing removes these growths but the knife." A few months later, about February, 1919, after a period of great sorrow and loss, I was on the point of submitting to the operation, not with a view to gaining better health, but because I was in such depths of misery that I had come to the conclusion that death was the best way out of it all, and I was hoping that I would die while under the anæsthetic.

I had lost all faith in the God whom I had been brought up to believe in, and whom I had been taught to thank for both the good and the evil that came into my life. I felt I had no more use for a God who could make His creatures go through the mental and physical tortures I had suffered; and so, without a God of any kind to hold on to, the world seemed to me a very dark and dreary place indeed. One day I left my home with the intention of getting the specialist to fix an early date for my operation (and so end it all); but on my way to town I met a friend who suggested that I try Christian Science. I told her I knew nothing of Christian Science, but supposed it was a fad of some cranks, and I did not intend wasting my time on it. Within an hour or so, however, I found myself in a Christian Science practitioner's office, to my own great amazement at the time, although I realized afterwards that I had been divinely led there.

I shall never forget the kindly way in which the practitioner told me that God is Love and could no more send these sorrows and calamities upon us than a loving earthly father could deliberately make his children suffer; that our own wrong thinking was the cause of all our sufferings. In the end, after a talk and a promise that I would get a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I asked the practitioner for treatment; and I left his office feeling as if I saw a tiny glimmer of light in what had been dense blackness. I had a few treatments; and then one day, a few weeks after my first visit, I saw the specialist again. After a thorough examination the doctor said, "Well, there's a fine difference in you since I last examined you." When I asked what he meant, he said, "I mean that these growths have practically disappeared." I said, "What about the operation, then?" and he answered: "There's no need of an operation when there's nothing to operate on. You are all right in every way."

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