Testimony of Healing April 27, 1946 Issue

Some time ago I was in deep...

A. Jackson Detsch

Some time ago I was in deep financial distress, and everything I did seemed futile. I suffered from continuous colds and headaches, and would not travel without certain brands of medicine; in fact, I took great pride in the size and variety of our medicine chest contents.

One day I left for a short trip. My wife had been suffering from a badly swollen throat and was hardly able to whisper. On my return I heard her singing like a lark, the bandages off her throat, and the swelling all gone. I asked at once what medicines she had used. She replied that she had been healed by reading and studying Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and had thrown all our medicines away. This provoked me. I told her that she could use Christian Science herself, if she wanted to, but that she should not try it on the children or me. Having a mistaken concept of this Science, I said that I had will power enough of my own. I felt I did not need Christian Science.

As my financial condition, despite my will power, grew steadily worse, I finally listened to my wife's repeated pleas to learn something about Science. I visited a practitioner, who began by giving me the spiritual sense of words that had formerly had only a material meaning to me. For instance, when I told him that what he said was beautiful and that I believed I had found something for which I had been looking, he replied, "That is something to be grateful for." Previously gratitude had seemed to me a servile quality; now, however, it lifted me in exultation.

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