Testimony of Healing August 22, 1942 Issue

With the hope that it may help...

Frank Saddler

With the hope that it may help others I bear grateful witness to the healing power of divine Love. Twenty-one years ago I began to read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, not for physical healing, but because my experiences in the World War had left me disillusioned and faced with a gloomy prospect of economic adjustment.

Because work in the profession for which I had prepared in college had become almost nonexistent, it seemed necessary to start at the bottom in a new line of work. This I did; and in a few months faced my first problem of supply. My father passed on suddenly, intestate, leaving no income but mine to support my mother and myself until his affairs were straightened out. My small salary was insufficient to care for one, to say nothing of two; but I had been gaining faith in God through studying the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, and I felt sure of His loving providence. Very shortly, through an unexpected shift in personnel, an opening came for me in my department, bringing a salary increase which met our needs completely at the time.

Shortly after this I experienced, through continued study, two healings, each so naturally that I was not aware of them at the time. One was the healing of the smoking habit, the other the laying off of glasses. I discovered one afternoon that I had not smoked at all that day, and had no desire to do so. This craving, against which I had struggled vainly for some time, had simply vanished. And what was particularly impressive, it had ceased to be a part of me so completely that it was two or three days before anyone in the office noticed that I was not smoking; and then the first associate to do so offered me a cigarette, apologetically remarking that he had forgotten whether or not I smoked.

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