Testimony of Healing September 2, 1944 Issue

With a deep sense of gratitude...

Alfred Raposa

With a deep sense of gratitude to God I humbly submit this testimony. It is my sincere desire that someone searching in the wilderness of materiality may thereby be led to Truth.

About eight years ago I found myself in the deepest despair. I was suffering from a severe nervous breakdown which threatened my sanity and forced me to give up a musical career at an early age. Coupled with this were a serious heart condition and years of sinful living. I knew I could not go on this way, and thought the only solution would be to jump into a river near my home. The thought of suicide became chronic, and each time I passed the river I was nearly overwhelmed with the thought of ending it all. But something in my thought resisted the impulse, and I blindly prayed each time to an unknown God to help me.

One day in the midst of the confusion I remembered that I had attended a few Wednesday evening testimony meetings in a Christian Science church with friends who were not Christian Scientists but, like myself, were attending out of curiosity. I recalled that healings had been related at this meeting, and I felt a deep conviction that this religion would point the way out. I located a Christian Science Reading Room and was lovingly received there. I had no money to buy a Bible or a copy of the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. The attendant, however, lovingly gave me an old copy of each of these precious books. I shall never forget the hope that welled up in me as I began to read them. I knew that I had found God, and that through Christian Science I should find health and happiness again. I was instantaneously healed of smoking, drinking, and the use of profanity. I had always been a very selfish person, but now a great desire to love all mankind was born in me, filling me with joy and gratitude.

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