Testimony of Healing December 18, 1926 Issue

When Christian Science was first presented to me, about...

Bert H. Grew

When Christian Science was first presented to me, about five years ago, I was certainly in need of physical healing. I was suffering from a nervous breakdown, and two of the best physicians in our town could not do anything for me that would give me relief or healing. They finally gave up the case, advising me to go to a different climate. I lost my position, and about the only thing that was left for me to was to take their advice and move. Just at this time the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was lovingly handed to me by a dear friend, who told me to read it and that it would heal me. This I did. But having already made arrangements to move West, my wife and I proceeded to make our trip across the country. At the same time I started on another journey, the journey which our revered Leader calls the journey from sense to Soul; for I was faithfully reading our textbook, and the good seed was being sown.

Since then many physical symptoms have been overcome, among them chronic constipation and dizzy spells. The tobacco habit, to which I had been addicted for twenty years, was also overcome about three years ago. For these healings I am exceedingly grateful; but I am more grateful for what I have learned and am learning every day about true substance and eternal life.

Among the outstanding features of this healing truth that I observed along the way and that lifted me out of the dark valley into the light, was, first, the fact set forth on page 404 of Science and Health, "Healing the sick and reforming the sinner are one and the same thing in Christian Science." By this I could see that repentance and reformation were as necessary as physical healing, and that in proportion as sin was overcome, physical ills disappeared. Then, Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 451), "Students of Christian Science, who start with its letter and think to succeed without the spirit, will either make shipwreck of their faith or be turned sadly awry." This awakened me to the need of imbibing the spirit and of putting into practice what I had learned. I am very grateful for these steps of progress, as they brought about the realization that Christian Science is a religion of demonstration; and it has been a great comfort to realize that I have a religion that is an everyday religion, and that God is ever present. I am also beginning to see the truth about the brotherhood of man.

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