Testimony of Healing November 14, 1931 Issue

About four years ago, broken in health and filled with...

A. Richard Byquist

About four years ago, broken in health and filled with fear, and my trust in God fading, I dropped into the office of a Christian Science practitioner whom I had met in a business way. Why, I do not know; something impelled me to do so. Knowing me quite well, she said to me in a cheerful manner, "What in the world are you doing here?" I said: "I am sick and unhappy, and I thought you might help me. I have gone the rounds of the doctors and they do not seem to be able to do anything for me, so I thought I would talk with you and see what you can do for me." She answered, "I cannot do a thing for you," and then added very tenderly, "but you will be surprised to find out what God can do for you." She continued telling me the wonderful message of Christian Science: that God is Love, that He never made a man sick, and that sickness is entirely unnecessary and illegitimate—a lie about man, an illusion or a wrong sense of life which has no authority or law back of it.

When I left my friend's office I felt much relieved. She had given me some books, and I began to read and to seek; and the more I read, the more firmly I was convinced that I had found something real. I was honest in my desire to learn of Truth. I began attending the Christian Science church, and the Wednesday evening testimony meetings were very helpful. Christian Science treatment was given and healings came. The tobacco habit of twenty-five years' standing left me in a few days. This unusual experience aroused greater interest than ever in Christian Science, and it led me to seek "the deep things of God" as revealed in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.

I am grateful to say that this wonderful truth which has come into my life has changed my outlook. Love is overcoming hate and resentment, patience overcoming haste and mad ambition, tolerance and good will to all are growing in my consciousness from day to day. I am healthier, happier, and the world is brighter. I am particularly grateful for the testing times. Evil may seem to strike with deadly thrust, but holding to the truth enables us to stand firm; and we need not retrace our steps. To know that God is the only power, and that evil has no power, has been a great comfort to me. Many healings have come into our home, proving the ever-presence of God, good; and each of these experiences has brought to us a greater realization of the nearness of God and His love.

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