I have been released from sufferings that tortured me for twenty-five years, and of later years the attacks became more frequent of the much dreaded disease, rheumatism. I suffered from about every phase of the disease, and physicians pronounced the case chronic. I had lost all faith in materia medica, and had almost concluded there was no God, for I had prayed year in and year out with no good results, and I was on the verge of atheism. It was in the midst of a dark physical and mental conflict that a Christian Scientist came and delivered me from torturing attacks. Mine has not been an instantaneous healing. I had one year's hard struggle, but what signifies one year, after a suffering of twenty-five years? My gratitude is not alone for physical help, but greatest of all, the spiritual blessing that has come to me, as our Saviour promised, with "God's abiding love and presence." It is through the Truth,—"Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." expounded as it is in Christian Science,—that I have been freed from physical torture and from a mental strain. It has led me from the world's glittering false path into the true, peaceful, narrow gauge. It has given to me a light that leads to faith—not a blind faith but a faith that leadeth to understanding, and through this understanding the Scriptures have opened up to me in their spiritual significance, making me love my Bible,—a closed book to me for years because I could not read it understandingly. Now the Bible and our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are my daily companions.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
