Testimony of Healing February 1, 1975 Issue

A few months before the termination of the 1914/1918 War, I...

William Rees

A few months before the termination of the 1914/1918 War, I was discharged from the Army Military Band as being medically unfit for further military service. I appeared to have all sorts of complications. However, I worked hard for two years and saved enough money to enable me to study at a recognized college of music.

Some time later I saw a Christian Science lecture advertised, and my wife and I attended. The theater was crowded, and I had never seen so many happy faces. One sentence quoted by the lecturer kept recurring to me. It is from the textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 425): "Consciousness constructs a better body when faith in matter has been conquered." I needed a better body, but I could not understand how Christian Science would provide me with one.

Then one day I called on a Christian Science practitioner who had helped a college friend. I told him that from an early age I had suffered from headaches. During the conversation I casually remarked that I wished I could give up smoking, and he replied in a very soothing, fatherly manner, "Oh, don't worry about that. When the time is ripe, the smoking and the headaches will give you up, that is, when you see that you are a free man." I asked, "What do you mean by being a free man?" He spoke for some time, quoting what Mrs. Eddy has to say about smoking in her writings. The impact of what he had said to me, coupled with my desire to be cured, healed me. I left his office a free man and never smoked again. Nor was I troubled further with headaches.

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