Testimony of Healing November 24, 1934 Issue

In my childhood I was taught that God is a God of love,...

George Edward Denton

In my childhood I was taught that God is a God of love, but in His inscrutable wisdom He either caused or permitted suffering. As it was impossible for me to accept this teaching, I became for many years a professed agnostic; but wartime experiences made me again demand and answer to my question, "Whence comes evil?"

I returned to civil life after the war with nerves in a very bad condition. I was also suffering intensely from a complaint, to alleviate which I began to take a powerful drug, and rapidly found myself hardly ever free from pain except when under the influence of the drug.

At this point I turned in desperation to see if Christian Science could help me, and while reading the textbook, I saw the statement (p. 143), "Mind is the grand creator, and there can be no power except that which is derived from Mind." I instantly realized that nothing either good or bad can be experienced except that which is first in thought. I saw that evil must be the result of wrong thinking about something which is inherently right, and that as I thought good thoughts instead of bad thoughts, good must come into my experience. The moment I realized this, all desire for the drug left me. Furthermore, the pain from which I had suffered never returned with its old power, and when I have been tempted by it the pain has always been banished quickly as I have adjusted my thoughts. Susceptibility to colds and influenza has also gone from me, as well as all desire for smoking, to which I was a slave for many years.

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