To show how one can bar out this healing by standing in his own light, I will give my testimony, trusting it may reach and convince some poor sufferer that Christian Science is the Truth, and does surely heal and save from all manner of trouble.
When I first heard of Christian Science I was as miserable as one could possibly be, and yet stand up and earn a living. Having a little business place I was continually filling my customers' ears with my troubles, looking for sympathy. Most of them would try to console me; but there were a few who would apparently close their eyes and ears to all I said, who before they departed would advise me to try Christian Science, saying others were being healed by it, and it would heal me, but I could not believe it. I made some inquiries among others of my customers, but they said everything against it and nothing for it, so I thought it a humbug and gave it no more attention.
Not long after that a church began to go up very near me. I inquired what kind of a church it was, and was told it was a Christian Science Church, and that Christian Science healed sickness as well as sin. It was then I became very much prejudiced against the whole thing and did not want to hear any more about it.
About one year after this I got so badly off that I had to do something. I was advised again by one of my customers who was a Scientist to try Science. I decided to do so and bought a three-dollar edition of Science and Health, because it did not look so much like a Bible as the five-dollar edition did, to have around my shop. Then I commenced to read, as I had been told that that alone might heal me. I had read but a short time before I was satisfied it was the Truth and just what I wanted. In my eagerness to know what was in that book and get the Truth that was to make me free, I hated to see a customer coming into my place of business. At the end of three weeks I found I was healed of indigestion of twenty years' standing, could eat anything I wished, and I also removed three material supports from my body that I had worn different lengths of time; one I had worn eighteen months, another eight years, another fifteen years.
Thanks be to God, I had found the Truth which makes free. Oh, what a sense of peace, joy, and love, I experienced while I was reading! and to know I was healed and set free, let loose as it were in another world by Love divine. It would be useless for me to undertake to tell my love for God, and all who were instrumental in leading me up so wisely and gently to the Truth, and in fact all God's dear children all over the world. We constitute one big family, and God is our Father and Mother, so I beg you, dear reader, if you are weary and heavy laden, do not stand in your own light or allow others to stand there, but investigate Christian Science and you will find your God, a God of Love, a God who healeth all thy diseases.
My first healing by reading Science and Health occurred about two and a half years ago, and only cost me the price of the book, three dollars.
Five months ago I was taken with a severe case of appendicitis. This time I called in a healer and was back in my place of business to work in just twelve days. This case cost me ten dollars. I for one can say I do not think Christian Science costs too much.
Before I was healed I weighed one hundred and twenty-three pounds, now I weigh one hundred and sixty-two pounds. I have every reason to be grateful, and I am trying to be a Christian Scientist, which is the best way to show my gratitude.
I find in Christian Science that God is really an ever-present help, just as the Bible tells us. I find all the promises are true on conditions. Now if you would know these conditions read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," they are made plain therein. I cannot close without saying that I am a subscriber for the Journal and Sentinel, and I could not think of ever giving them up. I love them dearly and always read the demonstrations first. I like to know how others have been led to the Truth and been made free, and read their words of gratitude to God, and Mary Baker Eddy, and the faithful ones at headquarters, and the healers, and all who are helping in this good way of spreading the glorious gospel to poor, suffering humanity.— Boston, Mass.
