Testimony of Healing June 20, 1925 Issue

With a deep sense of gratitude to God I testify to the...

Vincent H. P. Molteno

With a deep sense of gratitude to God I testify to the healing, regenerating, and sustaining power of Christian Science. I was healed of disease after material remedies had failed. This healing took place in the early days of the war, when I was serving as a naval officer in East African waters. I came to my home on leave, sick and discouraged. My mother, who has been faithful to Christian Science through many years, discerned my need and advised me to ask for help from a Christian Science practitioner. I started to study the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and with the help of a loving and faithful practitioner the error in thought, with its effect upon the body, was soon dispelled.

With this experience came the necessity for a serious mental stock-taking and the separation of the tares from the wheat, to initiate the process of "the spiritual regeneration of both mind and body," spoken of by Mrs. Eddy on page 187 of "Miscellaneous Writings." With progress in this direction I had to pass through a time of severe test. I am grateful to say, however, that the small understanding of Truth gained by sincere effort was found always sufficient, always available to meet every need. I was called upon to land in East Africa in command of a naval detachment to operate with the military forces. The conditions of service in this campaign were unusually severe. Food was very scarce, the small comforts of active service practically absent, and disease very prevalent. In common with others, I fell a victim to malarial fever and dysentery in a severe form. I was placed in a field hospital of native huts filled with others similarly affected. Very little attention was available, as most of the attendants were on the sick list themselves. Throughout this time of danger I never lost hope; nor was I ever less than fully confident that divine Love would deliver me. A fellow-patient told my relatives, long afterwards, that I was not expected to live through this experience.

Within six months after reaching England as an invalid I was at sea again, this time in the submarine service. I entered this service much against the advice of the doctors, to whom I had to report for examination. They were afraid that I could not stand the strain of this arduous and confined service without a long period of convalescence. Again Christian Science enabled me to go forward fearlessly, and to fulfill whatever duty seemed to be mine at the moment. I was at sea until a fortnight before the armistice. Since returning to England I have had no recurrence of malaria or dysentery, a state of affairs not usual with those who have once had the former.

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