Article March 1, 1941 Issue

Provision of Proof

ALBERT EDWARD NORMAN

In the western world, most schools of religious thought accept the Bible as the means of understanding God. The application of basic teachings, however, has not always been inspired, and this has led to confusion, and to the division of religion into various sects, or schools of religious thought.

Before coming into Christian Science, a man directed his attention to one such school, but without much faith in its ability to unlock the treasures of spiritual truth. Like the woman we read of in the Bible, who "had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse," he too was suffering from what physicians had declared to be an incurable complaint.

Though he studied the Bible with its promise of spiritual power and blessedness, nevertheless, between his present ill-health and the fulfillment of this promise an immense and impassable gulf seemed fixed. But in the thick darkness one small and constant light kept aglow the lamp of allegiance to God. This was his firm conviction that spiritual healing transcended all other means and was possible here and now. Small and faint as this state of spiritual apprehension often seemed, it was sufficient to sustain the human thought in the midst of its seeming despair; and when the healing power of Christian Science was brought to his attention, this light was sufficient to render comprehensible the new-old appearing of Truth. Through reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, he experienced the great joy of an instantaneous healing.

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