Testimony of Healing August 21, 1926 Issue

The Christmas season will ever remain in memory...

John C. Hansen

The Christmas season will ever remain in memory as an outstanding happy event of my life; for it was then that I saw the necessity of presenting my body "a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is ... reasonable service." "Acceptable unto God"! How simple it now seems! What led me to this harmonious presence was entering a Christian Science church out in the Philippine Islands, and there gazing on the words which I now know to be the truth—that, indeed, "God is love."

As a soldier in the regular army of the United States, both in this country and overseas, I had been aimlessly drifting about, searching here and seeking there, and wondering about the who, what, why, when, and where of life. Others seemed to find satisfaction in their church; why could not I? Had any one told me at that time that I would now be attending services regularly and using the teaching not only Sunday, but in everyday practice as I now am, I should have replied that they were talking in riddles.

One of the physical healings which has come to me so beautifully in Christian Science was that of a chronic stomach disorder of over eighteen years' standing. Doctors had named it chronic indigestion and constipation, catarrh, ulceration, and so on. I had undergone one operation without any relief, and had been placed on restricted diet for many years, even to absolute fast for periods of many days, trying to starve this condition from the body—all to no avail. Then I had been sent off to another hospital in another state for the purpose of undergoing a second operation. I had been in this hospital about three weeks when one morning the head surgeon came to me and said, "We can do nothing here for you; another operation would be of no benefit; the condition of your stomach is incurable." This discouraging news put me in such a poor frame of thought that when this kind surgeon dismissed me with the remark, "Why not try a little Christian Science?" it seemed as if he were only adding insult to injury, and that all hope of regaining health was lost.

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