The blessings I have received through Christian Sci ence are indeed manifold. I came to it about a year ago, very selfishly, for the healing, and as soon as I commenced to read Science and Health, I fought it every step of the way, for I said, these things cannot b possible, I have been taught the exact opposite all my lifetime. But, as my health began to improve, and I continued to read, new beauties were unfolded to me, and I realized that it was indeed the same blessed Truth taught and practised by our Master. Although the claim for which I came to Science has not entirely vanished, yet I am much better in every respect, and know that if I earnestly and honestly persevere, I shall be made every whit whole. Last winter I was healed in a very short time of poor eyesight. My eyes became so defective that I could only read four or five lines at a time. I commenced to declare that God was my sight, and that Spirit's senses were indestructible and eternal. I soon found that I was forgetting to put on my glasses and that I could read the finest print without difficulty. Shortly afterward, I noticed that my hands and feet seemed to be growing numb, and then they commenced to prickle and pain me. I suppose physicians would have called it creeping paralysis, but through my understanding of God as All-in-all, I was soon completely healed of this claim also.
I now wish to tell of a demonstration for a friend, who had lost an arm through an accident, and was suffering untold agonies in the mortal thought of pain from the amputated arm. I began treating him and he was relieved with the first treatment and in a few days was entirely free from pain. That was about two months ago. Last week I received a letter from him stating that he had some very good news to tell me, which was, that the places on the stump of his arm, where the flesh had been removed at the time of amputation, leaving just the skin next the bone, had all loosened up and new flesh had formed underneath it, full and smooth. I consider this a beautiful demonstration, and my heart instinctively goes out in love and gratitude to our Mother, Mary Baker G. Eddy, who has done so much for a sin-sick and suffering world by revealing to us the way of Life, Truth, and Love, as taught in Christian Science. I think the happiest time of my life was when I became able to demonstrate for myself and others, thus proving Jesus' words literally true, when he said, He that believeth on me [understandeth me], the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
Crawfordsville, Ind.
