Testimony of Healing October 10, 1953 Issue

The healing ministry of Christian Science...

Lorne M. Wilson

The healing ministry of Christian Science, revealed by Mary Baker Eddy in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," came into my life at a time of great need and fulfilled its Christly mission by restoring me to health and normalcy. I was suffering from a serious stomach disorder which had brought the medical verdict that I had not more than two months to live. Only those who have been in a similar situation can know of the utter gloom which enveloped me.

At this time I paid my first visit to a Christian Science practitioner. During that one wonderful hour I was instantaneously and completely healed. This healing took place over thirty-five years ago, and there has been no recurrence of the disease. When the practitioner assured me that Christian Science heals just as Jesus did, I was incredulous, but when I was healed, as he said I would be, I had to admit that he has been correct.

My immediate concern then was to find out how such things could be, and I began the earnest study of Christian Science. The doubts and confusion that I had entertained as the result of former religious training disappeared before the clear light of Truth, and I could see that this light was available to all who diligently sought it. The many healings that followed, some through my own understanding and some with the aid of loving practitioners, are cause for great joy. I am most grateful for the healing of the smoking habit of many years' standing. This too was a sudden cure, for I threw away my last cigarette just before entering a practitioner's office, and I have never wanted another. The drinking habit also fell away from me when I decided to be man enough to say "No" and to stand by that refusal. It has since been proved to me that one does not have to drink to succeed in public life.

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