I would like to say what Christian Science has done for me. For three years I was much opposed to it, really from ignorance, as I would not take the pains to read any of Mrs. Eddy's books. Being a recent convert to the Church of England, I thought it met all my requirements, but I soon saw that it did not give me the solace that the Christian Scientists received from their church, and in reading the Bible. I realized that the Church of England only fulfilled half of Jesus' commands; they preach the Gospel. but they do not heal the sick, as we are told to do.
For years I had suffered greatly on account of astigmatism. I had been to several oculists, and Dr. Parchenstecher and Dr. Mauser of Wiesbaden, told me that unless I wore glasses I should be blind. I wore them for nine years, and every two years I hail to get stronger ones. If I went without them an hour, I suffered from severe headaches and nausea. As soon as I realized that Christian Science was the Truth, I went to a healer to be treated, and after the first treatment I was able to read the Bible and Science and Health without my glasses, but if I tried to read anything else my eyes ached. I had three weeks' treatment. That was two years ago, and I have never suffered with my eyes since. After the first week I was able to read anything. Christian Science has not only healed my eyes, but has helped me in a great many ways and has made me much happier. Science and Health has unlocked the Bible, so that it is a pleasure to read it now, and I cannot be too thankful to Mrs. Eddy for giving us this Truth.
The last two summers I have been in France, and it has been beautiful to see how the peasants there take to Christian Science. A little woman who had been operated on three times in four years for cancer, and did not seem to get any better until she was treated in Christian Science, is now a well and strong woman, working in the fields from sunrise to sunset without fatigue, knowing that God is her strength. Let me add that her life had been very immoral, and she was full of fear that God would not forgive her sins. I told her that divine Love could destroy all error, and she was healed, morally as well as physically, and is grateful to Christian Science.
A few months later, an epidemic of measles broke out in this little village, and her boy, nine years of age, had a severe attack of it, was confined to his bed with high fever, and suffered so much with his eyes that he could not bear the light. I happened to call there, and she asked me to treat him. Two hours later he got up, and was perfectly well. The rash left him the following day.
To show how the Truth spreads, a neighboring farmer, who had suffered from epileptic fits for over twenty years! hearing of these cures came to ask these peasants if he could also be cured. They sent him to me, and although it took him two hours to come and two to return, he gladly took this time from his work to come to me twice each week. He drank in the Truth with so much eagerness that it was helpful to see his face change with the spiritual light. He used to have these fits every fourteen days, and during six weeks' treatment he had only one very slight attack in his sleep, which he knew nothing about, and of which his mother told me. That was four months ago, and he has not had a return.
I gave them some Christian Science literature, and it was gratifying to see how eagerly they read it. Being Roman Catholics, they had no Bibles, but now they have procured some, and are reading them daily.
All these peasants wished to make a sacrifice for the benefits they received, so they brought me fruit, etc., from their little gardens.— London, England.
