Testimony of Healing October 12, 1946 Issue

In the fourteenth chapter of...

Perry H. Radcliffe with contributions from Mary Margaret Gunn

In the fourteenth chapter of Luke's Gospel is recorded one of the Master's illuminating parables. Jesus described a householder who had prepared a great supper. When all was in readiness this man sent his servants to summon the invited guests. Then the excuses were made. One had purchased a farm and must see it; another had five yoke of oxen to be looked after; a third was newly married and could not attend. When all attempts to fill the table had failed, the master of the feast said to his servant (Luke 14:23). "Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled."

This parable occurs to me whenever I think of my first healing in Christian Science. I had been suffering for a number of years from a stomach and bowel disorder. One day a kind neighbor spoke to me of Science. She explained its operation at some length, and recommended that I have treatment. Here was an invitation to the feast, but like those in the parable I made excuse. As a matter of fact, I recognized that Christian Science demanded a standard of life higher than that to which I was then adhering, and I was not ready to part with some of my errors. When I asked her if it would be necessary for me to change my habits she replied, "Christian Science does not require you to give up anything that is worth having." I later found that what I was clinging to so tenaciously was not worth having.

For a year after our conversation I continued with material remedies, and grew steadily worse. I tried medicine, osteopathy, and physical culture, but none of them brought any permanent relief. Only after every other hope had failed did I turn to Science. Thus I was driven to accept what I had previously put aside.

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