Testimony of Healing May 7, 1927 Issue

For many years I have desired to offer a word of testimony...

Herbert M. Beck

For many years I have desired to offer a word of testimony regarding my healing of asthma and other troubles. It was a splendid experience a good many years ago when, at a Wednesday evening meeting in The Mother Church, I gave my first public testimony as to my healing. And now the mailing of this written testimony will mark another victory over hesitancy, because of fear that I shall not do it in the best way. Now I am resolved to see that no personal sense shall enter into the matter at all, and that the right desire shall be free to speak.

The disease, according to physicians in several cities, was chronically progressive and incurable. I sought Christian Science treatment and was healed of a great deal, including nasal catarrh, dizzy headaches, and a severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. As the years passed I became mentally happier but physically sicker, so far as asthma was concerned. I seemed not only to have no hope of healing, but became confirmed in the conviction that this was one trouble that I would have to carry beyond the grave!

I had no thought of why this should be so. But I knew that it was not perpetual flesh I was seeking. The Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, continually became more and more a part of my every thought. A still greater reverence for Mrs. Eddy and her accomplishment in following Christ, her demonstration in presenting such a book as Science and Health, getting it safely introduced into the thought of a comparatively unthinking world, and the founding of The Mother Church and giving it its Manual—all seemed in some way to make God appear to be more companionable; and the sleepless hours of bondage and pain seemed more useless, and altogether of less concern. In this way I came to envisage new concepts of the divine attributes, and saw them as elements of true life and true manhood. They furnished a solution of daily human needs, which solution approached the understanding of the reality of man, deathless, perfect, and eternal. And a very certain joy began to permeate my whole sense of being, so that the old sense of sin and pain grew more and more uncertain and unreal; and then the body also responded with health and vigor.

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