Testimony of Healing March 13, 1937 Issue

I have been a student of Christian Science for over six...

Milton Robert Cornish

I have been a student of Christian Science for over six years, and many times during these years I have experienced its beautiful healing power. I did not take up its study for any physical healing, but because I had grown discouraged, despondent, and completely disgusted with my life as I was then living it. I started to study this Science in the search for something tangible, something which I could turn to that would protect me in time of trouble, something that would lift me out of the rut of fear, doubt, and despair in which I then found myself. This search was rewarded in the reading of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, which enabled me to find God, and the coming of God to my consciousness brought me the realization that the seeming conditions which had driven me to study this Science never did exist, and never could exist, in a kingdom filled to overflowing with God's goodness.

I have been healed of the smoking habit, which monopolized a good part of my waking hours for over ten years. The appetite for strong liquor left me without any special work being done. The desire to gamble also vanished, as did other false beliefs associated with pleasure in matter, such as a continual habit of swearing, a love of ease in matter, and many other sins based on the belief of sensation in the body.

My sincere desire in the giving of this testimony is to bring out clearly the fact that, until the time I found God, my thinking was completely submerged in the evidence before the physical senses, and the acceptance of these false conclusions brought forth in my human experience the desire to sin, smoke, gamble, and drink. The continual indulgence of this wrong thinking and doing brought me to mental chaos, evidenced in fear, doubt, dismay, and finally despair. I was indeed in the wilderness. Then I found God. The Bible and the textbook were studied, their practical truths applied to my thinking, and one by one these falsities fell away, and I began to know myself as God had made me—free, upright, and spiritual, expressing increasing confidence and gratitude for God's nearness and completeness.

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