Testimony of Healing November 2, 1940 Issue

Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written on...

THEODORE E. METZNER

Our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has written on page 1 of Science and Health, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." Also on page vii of the Preface to the same book she says, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." I wish to testify that I have been blessed with the truth of both these statements.

Over twenty years ago I had the privilege of attending the Christian Science Sunday School for about one year, but after leaving the Sunday school I turned entirely away from Science. Later, after indulging in many material pleasures, experiencing much pain, and undergoing several operations, I found myself under the bondage of a desire for strong drink, for which I received treatment in private sanitariums. A physician told me that my drinking was incurable and the best to be hoped for was occasional abstinence. Because I was in a distant city at that time, he further told me to catch a train for home and submit to a six months' stay in a sanitarium in the hope of being built up physically; but he added that I could not be cured.

I decided to drive my car home, although this was contrary to the advice of my physician and friends. After driving twenty miles I was in such agony, both mental and physical, that I stopped at the bank of a river, and contemplated hopelessly the future. Suddenly some of the truths I had learned in the Christian Science Sunday School came to me, and I had a ray of hope. I remembered my Sunday school teacher had once told us that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." Then the statement came to me, "All things are possible to God." I then recalled the Lord's Prayer, and a part of "the scientific statement of being," as given on page 468 of Science and Health. Those few moments I shall never forget, for I felt the calm assurance that God had heard my prayer, and that I was not left without the Comforter. I drove my car on some four hundred miles that day, rejoicing all the way, singing hymns and repeating the Lord's Prayer.

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