Testimony of Healing January 1, 1949 ISSUE

Being the grandson of a Protestant...

Edwin C. Newton

Being the grandson of a Protestant minister, I was reared in a home where I was early taught the Bible and was required to attend both church and Sunday School. I had to memorize much of the Bible, and as I grew old enough to ask what I felt were intelligent and natural questions, I was disappointed that not even the ministers themselves could give what I considered a good reason for their faith. This in time caused me to become rebellious at anything that savored of religion.

Later in my life, a member of my family was about to pass on because of so–called internal cancer in its last stages. A consultation by specialists resulted in the verdict that the patient could live but a few days, perhaps a week or so.

A friend, hearing of this, asked me to investigate Christian Science and sent me to a man whose wife had been healed of a similar trouble some fourteen years earlier. This resulted in my procuring a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and taking it many miles into the country to the patient. I was not familiar with absent treatments and failed to get a Christian Science practitioner to go so far away. The book was given to the patient, who line by line, as strength permitted, read it for about two weeks. Then she was able to dress, travel over country roads in a buggy and thence by train to a large city, where the services of a practitioner were obtained and her healing was completed. Still I did not study for myself.

About six months later another member of my family, who had been confined to a wheel chair for several years, after several operations was told by the physicians and surgeons that her end was certain in the near future. Again Christian Science was turned to, and a practitioner was called in. About thirty days later the healing was so complete that the housekeeper was dismissed and entire charge of the household was taken over by the patient, even to washing and scrubbing, something which had not been possible for many years.

By this time my curiosity was sufficiently aroused for me to begin to study the textbook, for here was a religion that actually proved its usefulness and was able to give a reason for the faith it inspired.

Experimenting for myself, I found I was healed of chronic constipation and indigestion, as well as of muscular rheumatism. As I continued to study, a profane vocabulary was dropped and moral healing began to take place.

It has now been over thirty–five years since I joined the Christian Science church, during which time this Science has been my only physician, as well as a panacea for every phase of inharmony in daily life. Naturally I am exceedingly grateful to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, who has made all this possible and who has shown us a God "who healeth all [our] diseases" (Ps. 103: 3 ).—Edwin C. Newton, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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