Testimony of Healing August 14, 1948 Issue

The reading of the testimonies in...

Lawrence Edwin Wood

The reading of the testimonies in the various periodicals has been such an inspiration to me that I can no longer postpone sending my own, although one from me was published about forty years ago.

While searching for something, I did not know just what, I visited various churches, and then I heard of Christian Science from some relatives. They gave me some literature, and after I had read a few paragraphs, I think the truth of Christian Science was apparent to me. I borrowed a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and read it after dinner at night, meanwhile smoking a pipe. After a week or two of this, the tobacco became distasteful, and I went to a shop to buy a fresh supply, as I supposed what I had to be stale. But as I entered the shop, a voice seemed to say to me, "You do not need it!" That was the end of the smoking habit.

A week or so later I consulted a Christian Science practitioner and was soon healed of the fear of the effects of food. My diet had been so narrowed down by three physicians that I could eat but little; indeed, the last of the three, a ship's surgeon, had advised me to see the best physician I could find ashore, little knowing how literally his words were to come true. I indeed found the great Physician, "who healeth all thy diseases" (Ps. 103:3).

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