Having received such a blessing from the knowledge of Truth in Christian Science, I feel it my duty to give my testimony in the hope that it may be the means of inducing others to seek that knowledge which alone can make them free.
Raised in the Lutheran faith, I believed the teachings of the Church until I was twenty years of age, when, to my great sorrow, I became an infidel, and during the last twenty years I have been without a God. Was I happy during that time? If suffering and taking medicines continually constitute happiness, I must have been extremely happy. But I now give thanks to God who, in his infinite goodness, has delivered me from that kind of happiness.
During the past fifteen years I have suffered greatly from dyspepsia and catarrh. Constantly on the watch for a "sure cure" or "specific," I bought and tried everything that I saw advertised. I also tried many physicians. During the summer of 1880 my dyspepsia was very bad. I went to an M. D. He examined me carefully and told me that one of my lungs was nearly all gone. Oh, what mental suffering that sentence of ignorance brought upon me! I took the medicine that he gave me, but I was going down gradually. He finally advised me to go into the country as the air of the city was not good for my lungs. I was going to follow his advice when I was prevailed upon by a friend to try another M. D. who was said to be "great on lungs." I tried him. He was indignant when I told about my lung trouble. He said it was simply a bad case of dyspepsia, and my lungs were as sound as two new silver dollars.
