Testimony of Healing July 27, 1940 Issue

Christian Science healed me of a dread disease, pronounced...

Paul Leonard

Christian Science healed me of a dread disease, pronounced by doctors to be incurable. I had contracted this malady in the Orient. Learning, sight—seeing, adventure—all had turned to ashes; work was torture; life itself seemed a burden. At the lowest point in this experience, I knelt on the forecastle of my ship. A sudden, unquenchable desire for the light of childhood's innocence gave expression to the Lord's Prayer, muttered in German, the language of my childhood. Then I sang Luther's great hymn.

The voyage ended, I found myself walking into a bookstore in San Francisco, California. The name "Christian Science" came to my lips—how, I do not know. The literature offered me on Christian Science consisted of lectures by a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship. These, and a book on autosuggestion which I had purchased, I took on board ship. I read lectures. The first reading of them left a taste for reality so strong that when I opened the book on hypnotism I could not read it, but put it away unread, only to destroy it later.

The next step I took was to buy "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. When I began to read, it became evident to me at once that I needed a Bible; so I secured one from the ship's book chest.

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