It is with unbounded gratitude that I give my testimony to the power of Truth over the darkness of human belief. Having had demonstrations in my own family, I feel that I should do all I can to acknowledge the power of Christ, as taught and demonstrated in Christian Science, to overcome all darkness of thought, sin, sickness, and death.
Although a veritable beggar in the way, I have been generously fed with the bread of life. I have found true His words "Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you." I have found constant relief from the ills that mortal thought would make real. Time and again the ministering Spirit has flooded my thought with divine Light, Life and Love. Truly the Spirit beareth witness that flesh and blood profit nothing. It is the Spirit that quickeneth—and God is Spirit. His grace is sufficient for us.—
When about ten years of age I attended public school in New York City, where the belief of smallpox became prevalent; and, as usual, all the children were compelled to be vaccinated. The vaccine used for me was taken from the arm of an infant. A few days later a rash appeared and my mother, alarmed by the fear that I had smallpox, took me to a physician. From that time I suffered from these attacks two and three times a year. During the past twenty-four years I have had various physicians; some telling me they could cure but failing to do so, others claiming it to be blood trouble that could never be eradicated. At last I gave up all hope, having no God, and settled into the conviction that death would free me from my wretched existence. At that time my sister, who had previously been healed of a trouble of ten years' standing, and who had also taken a course of instruction, began to treat me. I responded at once and was healed. It is now two years since I was made whole; in which time I have been under instruction at the same institute. I cannot speak too often or too long on the subject of this blessed gift of God. Indeed it seems as if I could never talk of anything else!— Brooklyn, N. Y.
