Testimony of Healing June 9, 1951 Issue

Christian Science first came into...

John W. E. Gilhespy

Christian Science first came into my life in 1907. For two years I was a shipmate of a Christian Scientist, and during that period I watched the good effects of his religion on his living. When I married and my wife and I had a daughter, our friend consented to be the godfather, and he presented the child with a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. My wife and I began to read it. Very shortly thereafter, through earnest study of the Bible and the textbook, I was healed of a chronic complaint which for some years had troubled me and which the doctors had failed to cure or relieve. Shortly after this experience, through the faithful help of a Christian Science practitioner, I was healed of a broken nose.

Later I was sent to the East to organize and take charge of a naval base. The mental and physical stresses of that experience were great, but they were met through my own study of the Bible and Science and Health, and I realized more and more the importance and value of the daily study of the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly.

Whilst I was serving in India in 1923, my wife and I became dangerously ill. We were rescued from our serious plight, however, by the loving-kindness of Christian Science friends, and with their help and the absent treatment of a practitioner in England we were healed. I made such a rapid and complete recovery that within a few weeks I was able to take part in a quadrangular cricket test, which is one of the great annual sporting events of that country.

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