Truth is radical, unchanging, and immutable

Fred H. Cutting

Truth is radical, unchanging, and immutable. The great men and women of all time, who because of their advanced thought advocate truths not recognized by their contemporaries, have always been called radical. This truth which has healed me seemed to me too radical, and even unreasonable, a few months ago, but now it seems perfectly natural and reasonable. It is not altogether pleasant for me to recall my experience, but I do so for the encouragement and help it may bring to some other suffering mortal. I am not a member of the Christian Science church, but have been a member of an orthodox denomination for over fifteen years.

About four years ago I became afflicated with rheumatism in a severe form, and for three and a half years I suffered intensely. For two weeks at a time I did not go to bed, not being able to lie down on account of extreme pain. The doctor who attended me administered an opiate almost daily to relieve the pain, and when I had recovered somewhat I found I was a victim of the drug habit as well as of the disease. I got around, though with difficulty, with the aid of a came, and for three years I could not put on my shoes or take them off. During this time my spine had become twisted, and I was a veritable slave to the opiate. The time came, this past winter, when I realized that I must have help or the grave was not far off. I had tried medicines administered by distinguished physicians, one being the chief medical director of a well-known life insurance company, another a noted nerve specialist, besides many others. One who was a homeopath gave me less medicine than the others, but he did me more good than all the rest, although that good was not lasting.

I then concluded that if less medicine was a good thing (and I certainly had taken a great quantity of drugs), that none at all would be still better, so I quit the doctors, and all the drugs except the opiate, and this I believed I could not live without, as the pain was constant, day and night. The condition of my back had become dreadful, and the drug had so undermined my nervous system that I was practically a wreck. I could eat but little, and tried to keep up my strength in various ways, using wines, etc., and to quiet my nerves I smoked excessively. In other words, I had the original disease, plus three awfully degrading and repulsive habits, fastened firmly upon me.

In this desperate condition (and it was desperate indeed), I was induced to try Christian Science. We are told that it was a woman who tempted Adam, and many other things have since been ungenerously laid at woman's door, but a good woman, whom I have the honor to call my wife, was the one who induced me to try Christian Science, and she is the daughter of a leading clergyman of lowa, now retired, but who spent fifty years in the service of a church of that state. She read to me from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and I began to take treatment from a practitioner. I struggled for a week between truth and error, gaining slightly; then I came to the conclusion that there must be a complete separation between them, or rather the enthronement of Truth in my consciousness, which would mean the annihilation of error. In forty-eight hours more I was entirely cured,—healed, and I may say regenerated. Morphine, liquor, and tobacco habits, as well as the disease, had all vanished, together with their effects; my mind was again as clear and acute as ever; my back was straight, and all pain or traces of it gone; my appetite was restored, as several around my family board can emphatically testify, and in about six weeks I had regained my normal weight.

In telling a friend of my experience, he admitted that a great change had taken place in me; that it was even wonderful; but he added that he thought it due to willpower more than to than to Christian Science. I told him he paid me a splendid compliment, but that I was acquainted both with my will-power and with the truth as taught in Christian Science, and that it was the latter which had healed me and wrought the great change. In conclusion I want to say that heretofore heaven had seemed to me a very distant, inaccessible place, to which very few seemed to be able to guide. Now I realize that to me it is not very far from my home, where any interested person may call and learn of my healing as here related.

Fred H. Cutting, Chicago, Ill.

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