Testimony of Healing December 3, 1932 Issue

Christian Science help was given my mother at the time...

W. Horace Whittemore

Christian Science help was given my mother at the time of my birth. As a child and young lad the truths of Christian Science were poured into receptive ears, many physical healings taking place. When I was eighteen, Bright's disease was healed through the loving help of a practitioner. On this occasion the report was broadcast among my boyhood friends that their playmate would pass on. The physical senses and a doctor who my father insisted should be called, testified that this disease was fatal. However, I never doubted God or His ability to cure the trouble. He did ; and a few months later I entered college.

It now appears that this university training did little else than lead me around in a circle. Before attending college I knew something about God and understood Him, to some extent, from the Christian Science viewpoint. But "the tree of knowledge of good and evil" was enticing and I "did eat," not so much during the university training as during the years following. Thinking and reading along philosophical lines became my only pleasure and pastime. In my search for truth I was always ready and eager to argue or discuss anything with anyone. Few people liked this; most resented it. Finally, a book seemed to be in the making, a book to enlighten suffering humanity and help them out of their plight! The substance of it was to prove that all of us, consciously or unconsciously, are trying to express the godliness which is in us.

Just about that time, over three years ago, I was in a mental state of complete discord and inharmony. One day a friend related how his mother had been healed of cancer through Christian Science. Instantly something told me that here was the remedy for me. I had never forgotten Christian Science; when praying I repeated "the scientific statement of being," given on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation, on pages 16 and 17. However, during these years mortal mind had enticed me into the belief that mortal man has a mind of his own, and that this so-called mind and body are real. When the idea to seek a practitioner came to me, I immediately followed it. Help was lovingly given and instantaneously received. Christian Science always had succored me, and my faith was sure. The idea of writing a book began to crumble.

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