Testimony of Healing January 24, 1931 Issue

From pantheism to Christian Science was a step which...

Clarence W. Ellsworth with contributions from Josephine C. Ellsworth, Margaret Widdemer

From pantheism to Christian Science was a step which I took without a moment's hesitation when a healing in my family changed my viewpoint. I had been brought up in a Protestant Sunday school. In my early career I went into the newspaper business in a city of substantial size, and in the course of my duties was frequently assigned to bring in news regarding sermons and church conferences of all denominations. The divergence of views regarding God which I heard in pursuit of this occupation led me, after a while, to the conclusion that no God existed at all, and that expressions pertaining to Him were only forms of superstition.

But this conclusion was not satisfying. I felt there must be a Deity, some supreme power; but to me He could not be found in any of the religions with which I had come in contact, and in ancient forms I found no appeal. Without knowing that the thought had been entertained by others, slowly I became convinced that the combined forces of nature constituted God; but as I observed all the activities of the world, both constructive and destructive, taking place, this did not seem logical.

Several years afterward, when I returned from a trip out of the city, the remarkable change in the physical condition of my wife, who had been treated in Christian Science for a few days, was proof positive that a then unexplainable thing had happened. A slight, but wholly uninformed, prejudice against Christian Science, based on an unimportant impression gained in childhood, at once disappeared. From that instant I knew that I had found a God of good only, and that anything contrary to good, in whatever form it might appear, must vanish. The healing had quickly forced me to take this mental stand; for I had observed the transforming power, without knowing why. I had been of an exceedingly analytical temperament, but this particular thing did not require more than first proof. I knew that it was right—not partly right, but wholly so.

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