It was three years last May since I first heard of Christian Science. I was at that time a slave to tobacco, and had been subject to sick-headache from a youth, as well as to beliefs of pain from neuralgia. I made, I think, four trips of twenty miles each to see a Scientist. The first three times I lost faith and did not see him; but the fourth I gathered courage to call on him. After that, for a short time, I took treatment, was healed; and then commenced to study the Science.—
Testimonies of Healing
It was three years last May since I first heard of Christian Science
From the October 1890 issue of The Christian Science Journal