Testimony of Healing April 7, 1934 Issue

I wish to express sincere gratitude for the enlightenment...

Edward K. Pleming

I wish to express sincere gratitude for the enlightenment which has come to me through the study of Christian Science. It was not physical healing which I sought, but spiritual satisfaction, for which I had hungered since childhood. I had always believed that God is good, but I could not substantiate this with my Sunday school teachings, which I had received from one of the large Protestant denominations. At the age of twelve I decided that, if God really were the author of all the terrible things which befell men, I did not further wish to know Him.

Christian Science has unfolded to me the understanding of God as omnipresent good, of which there is no unlikeness, in contradistinction to the false conclusions of corporeal sense. It has taught me not only that God is not the author of evil, but that He never permits it, and that an understanding of Him as omnipresent good, and of man as the expression of His infinite perfection, will dispel and efface even the seeming evidence of suppositional evil, no matter what mortals have named it. I am grateful to have learned that this understanding is the only physician which mankind ever have needed, or ever will need, and that this knowing is sufficient for the meeting of their every need.

A few months after beginning the study of this Science, when I had no understanding of its operation in human consciousness, I was healed, in one treatment from a Christian Science practitioner, of what is commonly known as barber's itch. The entire evidence of this disease, which had nearly covered my face, disappeared within twenty-four hours. I was later healed of sinus trouble, for which I had previously undergone an operation, and which specialists had pronounced chronic. This healing was instantaneous, and occurred when another young student and I were pondering the eighth chapter of Romans. Influenza yielded so quickly and so completely that it was as though I had been awakened from a sleeping dream. When the effects of poisoning were so acute that I had lost all control of my body, I was almost instantly healed by glimpsing somewhat the perfection of Truth, untouched and undisturbed by anything outside of itself. In this all-absorbing gaze I lost all consciousness of my physical body. When, in a few moments, I did contemplate it again I was entirely free.

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