Testimony of Healing July 20, 1929 Issue

I came into Christian Science hoping to be healed of the...

Simeon G. Des Autels

I came into Christian Science hoping to be healed of the social drink habit, or drunkenness. After I had taken all the material cures that I knew of, Christian Science was presented to me in a rather strange way. I lived at that time with people who told me that a woman came out from Boston once a week who carried a book with her, and that with the help of this book she could heal me of my trouble. As I was very anxious to be rid of this habit I took another chance, and I can truthfully say it was the only one that came out victorious. At that time I was also very proficient in the use of profane language, and when I came to my senses and found that I could not swear and did not even want to, I was scared.

All that I knew about God at that time was just the word "God," and that was all that I wanted to know; consequently I did not have any religion, and I disliked the Bible. But in this same hour I was led to the Bible and it opened at the book of Job; and I read it with all the patience of Job, and have been reading it ever since. Next in line came the healing of a discordant body, which seemed to me to be very near the grave. I did not want anything to eat, and could not have eaten it if I had. Now I can eat anything at any time.

When I have tried to find words enough to express my gratitude for all these blessings, it used to make me feel grieved because I found out it could not be done. I have found out that my gratitude has to be lived. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 323) our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, tells us that "Truth is demonstrable when understood, and that good is not understood until demonstrated." And I know that I am no true Christian Scientist unless I can demonstrate this truth to a certain degree at least. My daily prayer is for the understanding to demonstrate the superiority of the spiritual over the physical.—Simeon G. Des Autels, Framingham, Massachusetts.

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