Testimony of Healing November 27, 1954 Issue

When I first read the Christian Science...

William H. Longstaff

When I first read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was associated with the drug manufacturing industry and had a college degree as a pharmaceutical chemist. Science and Health presented a method of healing which reversed everything that I had learned in the study of pharmacy. Notwithstanding this reversal, it appeared to me that it gave a very logical and appealing presentation of Truth and that there was only one way to prove whether it was true—by applying its teachings. Through the twenty-five years which have followed I have found that Christian Science can be proved, for it heals when correctly applied.

Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 68), "At present mortals progress slowly for fear of being thought ridiculous." That fear was one of the first things I had to meet, for our laboratories were located only a few blocks from the Church of Christ, Scientist, I had begun to attend, and many of our employees lived in that neighborhood. The argument came that my association with Christian Science would soon be known and that I would be the object of much ridicule and might be discharged. However, I regularly attended this church during the several years I remained with the pharmaceutical drug manufacturer, and never was I subjected to any ridicule. Eventually I was divinely led from an executive position in the drug industry to an executive position in the food industry with no reduction whatever in salary.

Before becoming interested in Christian Science I was examined by a board of medical examiners for overseas service in the Army. This board verified a previous medical diagnosis that I had an incurable condition of the heart. After I began the study of Christian Science I was again examined by a doctor, this time for life insurance. When he finished examining my heart he remarked with emphasis, "Your heart is absolutely normal." This healing had taken place as the result of the general alterative effect of Truth, without any specific work.

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