Testimony of Healing March 6, 1926 Issue

For years I was a faithful and active worker in an orthodox...

Frederick R. York

For years I was a faithful and active worker in an orthodox church, diligently devoting myself to daily Bible study. Gradually I became impressed with the fact that results did not follow in proportion to my efforts to know God and have my prayers answered. Suddenly I felt there was so much lacking in my religious experience that I left the church. For four years I sought constantly for God. I had almost decided that I was an atheist when I quite indifferently read a Christian Science lecture printed in a local paper, and noted with surprise how little I was opposed to it.

A few weeks later I was induced to attend a Christian Science lecture by the size of the crowd I saw entering the hall where it was to be given. The lecturer gave an illustration which won my thought to Christian Science at once. He spoke something as follows: An American-born child was early taken to China and reared by Chinese. At maturity relatives found him and told him the truth about his birth. He replied, "Well, if I am an American, where did this Chinaman come from?" I saw the point. There was no Chinaman there. He had been an American all the time, but had not known it. Man, in the image and likeness of God, is wholly spiritual; he has never been material and mortal. I had been ignorant of this great truth before, and I was delighted to learn that Christian Science could make clear to me the nature of God and man. I began earnestly to study "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. In four months I had finished reading all of Mrs. Eddy's published writings, and had read much of the other authorized literature. At last I had found God and the revelation of His Word through Christian Science!

During those first four months I was healed of many chronic disorders. A severe cold and bronchial trouble which formerly would have run from three to six weeks was healed in four days. Arch supporters which I had worn for four years were found entirely unnecessary. Glasses worn from childhood, for twenty-two years, were laid aside. Constipation, indigestion, and frequent headaches were all healed. My wife also later laid aside glasses; and our little daughter, after showing apparently great need for glasses for a few months, complained that her glasses were dirty, and refused to wear them. Her eyesight had become normal again.

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