Testimony of Healing April 29, 1933 Issue

During the two years which followed my first contact...

Eliseo S. Blanco

During the two years which followed my first contact with Christian Science I was bitterly antagonistic to it, as I was sincerely convinced that it could produce only the worst possible effects on those who believed in it. At that time I was in a very depressed state of thought; physically I suffered from rheumatism and periodical attacks of lumbago; morally I was fast losing all belief in good. The interest I took in all so-called intellectual questions did not bring me any peace or satisfaction. Owing to the fact that my father was a clergyman, I possessed a fair knowledge of the Bible, but this did not bring me any relief as the book was meaningless to me.

One day when circumstances presented life to me darker than ever before, I experienced a deep longing for something better, higher, more substantial than material happiness, and I resolved to look into Christian Science instead of attacking it. My first inquiries left me unsatisfied. Later a friend suggested that I should hear a lecture. I went to one, and I shall never forget the peace which I experienced that evening, and the joy at hearing it stated that God was that good for which I was searching. The logical deductions I made from all I heard convinced me that at last I had found something substantial.

Shortly after, I purchased a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and began reading it. I emptied my medicine chest and threw away all the medicaments it contained. As I proceeded with the reading of the book I noticed that the rheumatism was causing me more and more trouble, till after a fortnight it culminated in an almost paralyzing attack of lumbago. I decided to carry on my business duties as usual, and although everyone advised me strongly to go to bed I thought I would stick to what I had read in the textbook and which I knew to be the truth. When I found myself seated before my desk in the office, experiencing most excruciating pain, I held to the fact that pain was not true, that it had no power to keep me bowed, that God, good, had not produced it, therefore it was not real. I have never known how long I dwelt on these thoughts, but later I found myself writing in a normal condition, of which I became aware only when someone drew my attention to it. I cannot describe the joy I then experienced. It seemed to me as if I was filled with a great light, and that day has remained in my consciousness as one of radiant sunshine. This was over thirteen years ago, and there has not been any recurrence of the trouble. Since the time of this healing many problems have been met and solved with the sole aid of Christian Science, some with the help of loving practitioners, for whom I feel a deep gratitude—problems of environment, employment, supply, sickness, bad habits (such as smoking which amounted to an insatiable craving), desire for alcohol, and some bad traits of character. There is yet much to be overcome, but I know that "with God all things are possible."

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