Testimony of Healing October 7, 1933 Issue

Twenty years ago I took up the study of Christian Science...

John White with contributions from Margaret Grant White

Twenty years ago I took up the study of Christian Science after many years as a busy worker in one of the evangelical denominations. A circumstance leading to this radical step was the freeing from habitual criticism and resentment of one I knew well. At that time I held an extremely prejudiced view of Christian Science and of its Discoverer and Founder, but fairness now demanded that such a healing be investigated; and honest inquiry revealed God—whom I had desired to know better—to be no other than infinite divine Principle expressed only through ideas. To a friend who encouraged my faltering footsteps it was remarked that such teaching must cause a revolution in one's thinking; for it had long been a habit to seek understanding by rising before business hours for study, not only of the Bible but of the doctrinal teaching likely to help local preachers in their labor of love. His reply, "Is it not time that some of our old views were revolutionized?" illumined Paul's words, "It is high time to awake out of sleep."

Before reading beyond the first searching and exquisite chapter of the Christian Science textbook—on Prayer—the solution of problems that had been lifelong began to unfold, while this practical work has since then increasingly proved a "key" in the best sense to a Book long and hopefully searched. It was with deep satisfaction, too, that one realized that Mrs. Eddy had not—as alleged—written a Bible for her followers, but that the old Book had been made available in proportion to our willingness to apply the truth about God and man in His likeness.

During the following years we had the pleasure, without assistance from materia medica, of seeing three boys come to manhood; and although the medical profession had said that two of them would always be delicate, they served during the world war and have since occupied normal positions. The gratitude I feel for the removal of fear which made this and other demonstrations possible is almost beyond expression. The blessings enjoyed through the understanding of Christian Science are indeed many, for Truth is continuously sought. Within six weeks after taking up this study I was suddenly and completely prostrated by an ailment never before experienced, which prevented even the raising of my head. For some days it was thought I must pass on. It was afterwards recognized as a chemicalization of thought which comes to some when Spirit, revealing the falsity of matter, whispers, "Choose you this day whom ye will serve;" yet, through simple confidence in the little I had learned, and with almost no knowledge of how to apply it, complete healing soon took place. I have been healed also of the tobacco habit to which I was long subject.

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