About twelve years since I met with an accident, falling...

About twelve years since I met with an accident, falling a distance of about forty feet on a pile of broken rock. It was thought at the time that I would be crippled for life, but broken bones were skilfully set and everything done for me by my kind and skilful surgeon. But in spite of the best medical skill I was left in such a condition that I was affected by every change of atmosphere, being subject to rheumatism in one of its worst forms. For eight years I continued under the care of different doctors of materia medica, and tried almost every so-called remedy suggested, sometimes having relief for a few days; but I continued to grow worse, until for the last several years previous to my investigation of Christian Science I was unable to change my position during the night without assistance, as one limb would become entirely helpless after being in one position for a little while. I required assistance to dress most of the time. This was the state, physically, that I was in when I began reading Science and Health, and it all disappeared while I was reading I do not know at what time I was healed, but I do know that I awoke to a realization that I was free in less than a month's time, and there has been no return of the claim. It was "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" that unlocked my prison house, that broke the shackles of belief called rheumatism, wherewith I was bound physically. I was a tippler, an inveterate smoker, and had no hope of immortality. To my darkened thought man lived and died in matter, and then nothing—darkness—void. All has been changed through the blessed Truth. I have no desire for tobacco and have not had for nearly two years. The belief of pleasure in the cup has disappeared. My thought is now being satisfied in the contemplation of infinite Good Christian Science has become the principal factor in my daily life, and daily I am reaping the beneficent influence of the Truth.—J. A. Kadz, Scranton, Pa.