Testimony of Healing September 6, 1958 Issue

My introduction to Christian Science...

Alfred Bole

My introduction to Christian Science was at a Wednesday evening testimony meeting. I had been brought home from France after World War I as a stretcher case, suffering from what the doctors called trench nephritis, from which I was told I would never be entirely free. I did not know when I went to a service in a Church of Christ, Scientist, a few years later that Christian Science had anything to do with healing disease. I attended because I had been investigating various denominations with a desire to find a concept of God I could accept. My experiences in the trenches during the war had shattered much of my faith in a divine power.

What I heard read from the desk during the service that evening met my need, for the reading revealed a God who does not send suffering of any kind to His creation. After the service I bought a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and took it with me to the hotel where I was staying.

On retiring, I read the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible and the chapter entitled "Prayer" in Science and Health. I lost all sense of time as I pondered the passages I was reading from the two books, and I caught a glimpse of the scientific fact that the disease from which I was suffering was not real, because, as we read in the first chapter of Genesis (verse 31), "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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