Testimony of Healing March 2, 1929 Issue

Christian Science came to me over eighteen years ago,...

Oscar E. Drummond

Christian Science came to me over eighteen years ago, and it has been my guide and shield ever since. When I first heard of it I was suffering from valvular heart disease, which I had had for seven years, and which no doctor was able to heal. One day a dear friend told me to try Christian Science, and took me to a practitioner, who lovingly tried to explain what he knew about it. In reply I talked on spiritualism! After about ten days' treatments, and many visits, I informed my friend that I was just the same. He then requested me to change practitioners, and I went to a lady for help. My friend told me to leave my views on spiritualism alone, and to listen only to the teachings of Christian Science. I did so, with the result that in my first treatment I was completely healed, and walked out of the house as if I were treading on air.

That was in September, 1910; and I thank God for it, for to-day I am well, and have been before army and insurance doctors as proof of a perfect healing. On page 242 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, I learned in my hour of need these words: "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and self-love,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death."

Since then I have had numerous proofs of the protecting power of divine Love. In 1918, when returning home from work in Bombay, I slipped off a ledge into a drain, to find later that I had hurt my spine. The mesmerism of the East had made me lapse, and instead of turning to God I turned to the doctors. After a year of all kinds of treatments, a Christian Science practitioner passing through Bombay lovingly treated me. I was healed in a week; but three years later, while in Calcutta, when hauling some large packing cases, I strained myself and the trouble returned. Next morning, on rising, I went to lift a small table and collapsed over it. I then felt as if I were paralyzed from my hips downwards. I called my wife and asked her for two putties, which I wound about me for support. I found they were insufficient, so I took them off and requested her to sew them together. During this time of pain I was realizing that my support was in Mind, and not in the bandages; so when my wife handed them back to me, sewed together, I refused them. I lay back and continued to know the allness of Mind. Suddenly I sat up, free of all pain in my back; but with my limbs still useless, I just sat there and went on working. Within a few minutes I arose, perfectly healed. It took twenty-five minutes to make this demonstration. This was in 1921, and there has been no return since of the error.

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