In I Peter we read: "But sanctify the Lord God in your...

William P. Keasbey

In I Peter we read: "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear." Every person who attends a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting, or who picks up one of the periodicals, thus mutely asks a reason for the hope that fires the heart of every sincere student of Christian Science. No wonder Mrs. Eddy says (Manual of The Mother Church, Art. VIII, Sect. 24), "Testimony in regard to the healing of the sick is highly important."

I did not take up the study of Christian Science for physical healing. My father was a physician, and I was much opposed to what I thought Christian Science to be. Consequently, I went to a Reading Room and borrowed a copy of the textbook, Science and Health, and read it through solely for the purpose of pointing out its worthlessness! However, even during that first and definitely antagonistic reading, I was healed of the belief that I could not read on a moving train without severe eyestrain and a resultant sick headache.

Finding no flaws in the textbook, however hard I looked, I took up the study of Christian Science and have been wonderfully blessed thereby.

Shortly after becoming interested I was motoring on the East coast, a thousand miles from the only practitioner with whom I had ever talked. During a dog fight my right hand was very badly lacerated in my efforts to part the fighting animals. I washed the hand and put plain cloth around it, then telephoned the practitioner. There was little pain, and a complete healing came about quickly. But the thing that most impressed me, a person so recently steeped in materia medica, was that after the healing my hand showed not a single scar. This seemed to me an irrefutable proof of the truth of Mrs. Eddy's statement (Science and Health, p. 424), "Under divine Providence there can be no accidents, since there is no room for imperfection in perfection." The lips of the wounds on my hand were not sewed together, nor was adhesive tape applied. Only the word of Truth was spoken, and the wounds and the evidence which mortal mind insists they must leave behind them, vanished into their native nothingness. If the accident to my hand had, in reality, never occurred, how could it leave a scar?

More recently I experienced another beautiful proof of the healing power of Truth, again proving that distance is no bar to the healing power of Mind. I seemed stricken with a poisoned condition of the skin of my face, resulting in huge deep sores from my eyes to my neck. I was called suddenly from my farm to a large city on a business trip. It did not seem right to take such a repulsive face into busy streets, stores, and offices, so I telephoned by long distance to a practitioner for help, and started out with a truckload of livestock.

Both my load of animals and I were beautifully protected on the trip. There was a fall of more than two inches of rain, and lightning so severe that it set five different fires along the highway I was traveling. Arriving in the city I decided to shave. I had not shaved in two weeks, because of the condition of my face, but I realized that just so long as I gave the difficulty the power of preventing the removal of my beard, so long was I giving it all the power it would ever have.

Again telephoning for help from the practitioner, I set to work and in about two hours the shaving was finished! From that moment the healing progressed so rapidly that one could see the troubled condition fading from sight, and within a matter of hours my skin was once more absolutely smooth and free from discoloration.

For this healing, and for innumerable others, including those of sick headaches, hay fever, a smashed toe, colds, toothache, influenza, and various injuries, I am very grateful. Then, too, I am very grateful for a new freedom from daily fears—of drafts, wet feet, and the like—for they have lost their power to harm me. My deep gratitude goes out to the loving practitioners who have so faithfully taken their stand for Truth, whatever the physical seeming, and for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church.

William P. Keasbey, Des Moines, Iowa.

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