My uncle—seventy four years of age—has been spending some time with me. Before returning to his home, with his daughter, he expressed much regret that he should be obliged to lose the Bible lessons. I proposed that we spend the evenings together working out all of the January lessons. He gladly consented to this, and found all the references with perfect ease. I loaned him a copy of Science and Health to take home with him, and its beautiful Truth is being unfolded to many. His daughter and her husband, together, read it through eighteen times during the winter. One day, while working on the railroad, the son-in-law crushed his thumb quite seriously. One of the workmen said, "You will have to quit work now." He replied, "No, this is nothing!" and through his understanding of Science he was able to fully demonstrate over the injury, then catching up the sledge hammer, he began to use it vigorously, whereupon a man exclaimed, What kind of a man are you?" Thus the good work is going on.—
Testimonies of Healing
My uncle—seventy four years of age—has been spending some...
From the July 1891 issue of The Christian Science Journal