The following extracts from testimonies recently published in the Christian Science Sentinel present in a few simple words the practical value of applied Christian Science.
"I had been a minister of the Gospel for thirty years.... My wife had been an invalid for ten years and we had the services of the best medical skill at our command, but she continually grew worse. I had for the last three or four years given up preaching and had gone into the mercantile business in a little village ten miles from the railroad. I built my dwelling near the store so that I could reach my wife at a moment's call. Her physician had prescribed the lightest food, of which she ate barely enough to keep an infant in health, and any violation of this law caused such terrible suffering that she was reduced in weight from one hundred and ten, to eighty-seven pounds. The doctors said that she had a complication of four or five different diseases, and she had to take as many different medicines every day of her life. ... In less than two weeks [after she commenced Christian Science treatment] I heard the hum of a busy housewife as she went about her daily duties. All catarrh of the stomach, all indigestion, all constipation, all insomnia, all sick headache, which she was accustomed to have two or three days each week, all kidney trouble and nervous prostration had fled into their native nothingness. Instread of the sad story of the day's suffering which I had heard for long, at night, I have come to hear the song of a happy wife." (Christian Science Sentinel, May 7, 1904.)
"Christian Science has brought me out of a labyrinth of human want and woe into joy and peace. It has established harmony in our home, healed me of daily suffering of over ten years' standing, and saved me from a dangerous operation. Every day brings demonstrations of the power of Truth. What a blessing to know that God is with us always and to realize that in Him we do "live, and move, and have our being." My daily prayer is to grow out of all selfishness into the knowledge and power of Christ Jesus our Lord." (Christian Science Sentinel, May 7, 1904.)
