Testimony of Healing September 11, 1926 Issue

Throughout the rather more than a quarter of a century...

Maurice Kennedy

Throughout the rather more than a quarter of a century which preceded my becoming interested in Christian Science I had been what is frequently spoken of as a "martyr" to hereditary asthma. The attacks would recur with wearisome regularity about every three months; and just two weeks before the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, came into my hands, I had seen a specialist, who, after examining me and stating that one of my lungs was already affected, added the not too comforting assurance that there was no known cure for this form of asthma, and that I might expect it to grow worse as I grew older. I had been studying the Christian Science textbook in conjunction with the Bible for about three months when I had my last attack of asthma. It continued only about four days, and then unexpectedly and quite suddenly disappeared. I have had no trace of asthma since, and that was eighteen years ago.

Christian Science has also freed me from many of those miserable ailments which attach themselves to the belief of a weak constitution, such as bowel trouble, indigestion, headaches, fatigue, neuralgia, sleeplessness, and so on. For eighteen years I have taken no medicine, nor have I resorted to any form of diet or hygienic exercises. Christian Science has been my only resort. About twelve years ago I was healed, through the loving, devoted, and efficient help of a Christian Science practitioner, of an acute attack of pneumonia, and restored to quite normal activity in ten days.

For these and many more physical healings that I have had in Christian Science I am very grateful; but the most abiding source of joy and gratitude is the spiritual revelation—that spiritual revelation which came to me eighteen years ago, and which even then was strong enough to lift me out of a veritable slough of despond, and which has unfolded more clearly and fully with every passing year. I am glad that as time goes on I find myself becoming more sincerely grateful for and more able to appreciate in some measure at least the life-work of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, whose clear, strong spiritual perception, born of unknowable self-sacrifice, and whose courage established this compassionate, yet mighty and irresistible movement, which is delivering men and women and children throughout the world from bondage to sickness, sin, and sorrow.

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