Testimony of Healing December 21, 1946 Issue

At one time I was a regular...

Thomas Archer Claydon with contributions from Katherine Wollin

At one time I was a regular attendant of an orthodox church, for many years attending three services each Sunday. Church music was the only attraction for me; I had no knowledge of the Bible, and I could not understand the mentality of anybody who attended a religious service on a weekday.

Then I met a friend who invited me to a Christian Science service on Sunday. Although I had been a choirman for twenty-six years, I was unable to join in the singing in the Science church for quite a long time, as the words of the hymns impressed me so much and were so different from what I had been used to. I realized then that here was a religion which appealed to me and which I could understand.

I had been under a doctor's treatment for three years, and when I asked him why he did not cure me he replied, "In the first place you have a very obstinate complaint, and, secondly, your age is against you." In addition, I was a lifelong sufferer from constipation, for which I must have spent a small fortune on medicine without result; and I had a large corn on the bottom of my foot, because of which I was obliged to wear irons in my boots in order to walk with some measure of comfort. The idea that I could obtain a healing through Christian Science did not occur to me. However, I was privileged to make periodical visits to a Christian Scientist. Then I saw clearly that I could not serve two masters, so I gave up the doctor, with the result that all my disabilities left me, including a morning cough which had been causing me considerable distress.

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