Testimony of Healing November 18, 1944 Issue

Over ten years ago Christian Science...

Thomas M. Whidden with contributions from Linda B. Whidden

Over ten years ago Christian Science convinced me that anyone can learn to rely upon it to supply his needs.

Although I had entered civilian life after the last war supplied with everything that this world considers necessary, neither success nor happiness was mine. Finally, influenced by a veteran whom Christian Science had healed of tuberculosis, I agreed to read the Gospels and the first two chapters of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, alternately. During the first year after I started reading I was healed of the need of wearing glasses, of dyspepsia, and of a diseased gall bladder (troubles from which I had suffered for about twenty-five, twenty, and five years, respectively). I was also healed of pyorrhea and supersensitiveness to drafts.

It took seven years of gradual loss of everything material I had held dear in this world, plus the invaluable help of Christian Science practitioners, to waken me to the fact that my troubles sprang from unwillingness to give up the belief in a selfhood apart from God. The reaching of this point was signalized by being healed of the coffee, chocolate, and tobacco habits. The first two healings were unsought. Tobacco was different: that habit had lasted for twenty-eight years, and for at least eighteen of them I had recognized it as a treadmill that never had got me anywhere, and never would. But will power had not succeeded in healing the habit. It took three months to lose the desire for tobacco, but there has been nothing but repugnance concerning it since then. Three days after I ceased smoking a fine position (my first in fifteen years) was offered to me by telephone, and three days later I was at work.

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