Testimony of Healing July 17, 1943 Issue

As a child I attended a Protestant Sunday School

Frederic Hueston

As a child I attended a Protestant Sunday school. I also dutifully accompanied my parents at the regular church services. Passing the age of adolescence, I began to question the validity of much that I had read in the Bible, and also of the learned dissertations by ministers of the gospel to which I had listened. I did not question the sincerity of the preachers, nor did I depreciate the importance of the Bible as a source of ethical culture, but the seeming contradictions and inconsistencies appearing in the Scriptures, especially in the Old Testament, puzzled me. Gradually my interest in religion faded and I became a questioning agnostic.

On reaching manhood I became addicted to the use of tobacco. The desire for alcoholic drink grew with cumulative effect until I became a confirmed drinker. Profanity and a debased sense of humor were other unlovely traits which had become a part of me. I had been physically frail and sickly from childhood, and through the years had used up countless bottles of advertised remedies and tonics in a futile search for health.

In 1920 I experienced a deep sense of grief after the passing on of an only child. I spent some time in a naturopathic hospital. When I left the hospital, I was still weak and ailing. A friend, knowing of my condition, invited me to attend with him a lecture on Christian Science. I went, and being of an analytical type of thought I was greatly impressed by the reasonableness of the speaker's thesis and the irrefutable logic of his statements, for he reasoned from the premise of the infinitude of one God or creator.

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