Testimony of Healing October 26, 1963 Issue

In retrospect, I marvel that I ever...

Alfred Hull Stevens, Jr.

In retrospect, I marvel that I ever approached so important and promising a religion as Christian Science with a mind nearly closed by prejudice. With that attitude I did reject it more than once before I was finally driven in desperation to visit a practitioner.

At that time I was living alone in a strange city, unhappy in my work, suffering repeatedly from heavy colds, and losing a power of digestion which at best had been only marginal. After one brief treatment from the practitioner I felt so encouraged that I bought and read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and later began studying the weekly Lesson-Sermons, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly.

My outstanding healing has been that of a nasty character. The atmosphere of my childhood home was charged with criticism and sarcasm. I firmly believed that I had inherited such traits and was powerless to free myself from them. My first hope of freedom came in the teaching of Christian Science that each spiritual identity is the child of the divine Father-Mother, God, not of mortal parents, and therefore human heredity has no power beyond what we give it in mistaken belief.

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