Testimony of Healing November 20, 1948 Issue

[Original testimony in French]

A sincere desire to know the truth...

Edmond Michaud

A sincere desire to know the truth is certainly the aspiration which has led many to Christian Science. According to Jeremiah (29:13), "Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." I am grateful to have found in my own experience an illustration of this, and I should be happy if, by relating the facts, I can show what wonders a grain of truth can accomplish.

About thirty years ago I read a series of articles on Christian Science which appeared in a French magazine. At that time I was in a pitiable condition. A very serious illness had left me almost completely paralyzed and unable to walk. My health was impaired, and the doctors had stated that I would not live beyond my twentieth year. My family believed that my case was incurable, and that I had no alternative but to spend the rest of my days in a hospital.

Those articles interested me very much, and although I could not grasp their entire meaning, the logic they contained seemed to me very clear. They said in substance that evil and matter cannot coexist with the allness of God, Spirit, infinite good, and that if God is All, evil can have no place or reality. These facts seemed to me self-evident, and they found ready acceptance in my thought, giving me great confidence in the reality of life and an abiding expectation of good. I read and reread those articles and wished to know more of this divine Science, but could not imagine how this could be done, for I felt helpless, separated from Boston by thousands of miles. However, the right desire was there, and since then I have learned that "desire is prayer," as Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p.1). Our Leader also states on page 2, "Prayer cannot change the Science of being, but it tends to bring us into harmony with it."

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