Testimony of Healing January 1, 1972 Issue

Christian Science came into my life at a time of deep discouragement...

Robert S. Moore with contributions from Juliette V. Moore, Lourens van Vuure, Magdalena S. M. van Vuure-Bijl

Christian Science came into my life at a time of deep discouragement for me. For over a year I had been on a very strict diet for gastritis and colitis and had undergone an exploratory abdominal operation with inconclusive results. The best medical advice available told me that I had no organic disease. Nevertheless, a bewildering array of drugs and diet aids seemed necessary to keep my digestion functioning and to make me sleep. I was faithfully following all these steps with drugs, special foods, and hypodermic shots in the belief that they were keeping me alive.

Before I became ill, I had enjoyed hearing a friend read in a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, but had failed to recognize this religion as my need. Subsequently we enrolled our two children in a Christian Science Sunday School in our vicinity because we felt all children should have some kind of religion.

After two hospitalizations and still no freedom from this strict regimen in sight, my discouragement grew deeper. The doctors had said I could hope to outlive the problem eventually. One evening in our kitchen, as I was sterilizing a needle for an injection, I realized I had come to a crisis in my life. Living in this manner was not worthwhile. In desperation my thought turned to God. A few days before, I had begun to read Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy but had completed only the Preface and Chapter I, and there had been no great impression on me at the time. Now there came to my thought that the question I had to decide for myself was whether or not I believed in a good and loving God and if such a God could conceivably share His power. Mrs. Eddy's statement from the chapter in Science and Health entitled "Prayer" came to me (p. 1): "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God,—a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love."

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