Testimony of Healing October 21, 1939 Issue

By the time I was nine years of age, the ministry was my...

Charles Seaton Campbell

By the time I was nine years of age, the ministry was my chosen goal, and to this end I made preparation. I shall always be thankful for the moral training I received in the orthodox church.

The work which I was eventually given, however, seemed too heavy; my parishioners were needing and asking for services that I did not know how to give. I prayed conscientiously, reverently, for them when they were distressed, but without understanding that "divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need," as Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 494). The responsibility settled upon me as a crushing burden, and I contracted nervous prostration. I left my work and brought my young family West, hoping that the sunlight would heal me. Gradually I became worse, until my employer recommended Christian Science to me. My weary steps led me to the home of a practitioner. This man spoke the same Biblical truths which I had so often spoken from the pulpit, and he showed me clearly that I was, in reality, a son of God.

Thereafter I never questioned that Christian Science is the way. My gratitude goes out to that true disciple, who fed me with "bread from heaven." After my first visit to him I was freed from fear and distress. I ate what I before had feared to eat, and I was able to do my daily work without fatigue. The way has seemed somewhat long and filled with many trials, but with each trial there has been a definite victory.

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