Testimony of Healing September 5, 1931 Issue

As one who has made what may justly be considered an...

John R. Carr

As one who has made what may justly be considered an earnest, honest effort both to give and to receive healing from the various so-called systems of materia medica, I am sincerely and genuinely grateful for the privilege and opportunity of expressing my appreciation and thanks to Mrs. Eddy for having presented to a sick, sinning, and dying world a system of healing that is scientific and Christian, absolute and final, exact and practical — a system which, when applied according to the Principle and rules laid down in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has healed, is healing, and will continue to heal in an ever increasing manner every ill "that flesh is heir to."

I was one of a rather large family of boys whose father was a physician. It was early decided that I should follow in the professional footsteps of my father, my education and training being outlined with this end in view. I was given the best obtainable educational advantages, and after graduating from a state university I entered one of the leading medical schools in this country, from which I was graduated with the degree of "M. D." Upon graduation I specialized in the practice of surgery, serving in a leading hospital as interne and assistant resident surgeon. My studies were continued in the clinics and hospitals of Europe, and I returned to the United States to take up the duties of resident surgeon in one of our outstanding surgical institutions.

At this stage two stern and disturbing convictions, unwelcomed and even resisted, forced themselves upon my enthusiastic and engrossed thought. I found myself irresistibly forced to the conclusions, first, that we physicians were not healing our patients as we desired; secondly, that I myself was far from well.

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