Testimony of Healing February 1, 1930 Issue

On the fifteenth of December, 1924, while suffering intensely...

Stuart Duncan Campbell with contributions from Jeanne Campbell

On the fifteenth of December, 1924, while suffering intensely from an attack of muscular rheumatism, I suddenly remembered the words of a friend on the eve of my departure for active service in Europe, in 1917: "The day may come when you will know God as I have learned to know and to love Him through the study of Christian Science. When all material means have failed, no matter how dire the straits or excessive your suffering, you will find relief and God through Christian Science." My opportunity had come to prove his advice, which had often been in my consciousness previously without my heeding it.

Material remedies in both Europe and America had failed to bring me permanent relief, and during these attacks I often wished I had been killed in action, or that I might pass on during one of them to avoid the pain of the next; and yet I was afraid to go to sleep for fear I should pass on. So, immediately after this messenger of Love had again entered my consciousness, my wife and I found our way to a Christian Science church to locate a practitioner. A light shining through the glass of a door led us to the literature distribution room, where we were lovingly directed to the home of a practitioner. The latter, after I had told him of my troubles, revealed to me a God and man whom I had never known before. The practitioner began his treatment, and I commenced to read the article he had given me, which proved to be most interesting. Suddenly I realized that the pain was gone and that I was experiencing a sense of freedom never felt before. I was healed! I could hardly wait to get downstairs to tell my wife, but did not give her any explanation of the way I had been healed.

In March, when undergoing my yearly army physical examination, I was found to have appendicitis and was ordered to a hospital for further examination and possible operation. X-ray photographs confirmed the diagnosis, and I was told I must be operated on quickly. I was allowed to leave the hospital to get my affairs in order. I was full of fear that I would have to leave my wife alone in a strange land, far from her family; and while I was grieving over this, suffering great pain, my wife, who was also ailing, asked me why I did not go back to the Christian Science practitioner. That suggestion brought to me the realization of my ingratitude. I had entirely forgotten my previous healing. Still, the leaven had been working. Humbly and meekly I again went to the practitioner, and again we were lovingly received. On this occasion my wife was given a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, to read while I was being treated. Again was the healing instantaneous; but this time I received also a moral healing that was of even greater value, and there came a spiritual enlightenment that has never left me.

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