I will mention some of the blessings I have received. Christian Science has healed me of the tobacco and liquor habit, of using profane language, and of weak spine caused by an accident in a mine; it has enabled me to give up some of the most subtle beliefs of pleasure in matter; it has healed me of jaundice and fever; it has lifted that awful dread of the evil which the morrow might bring forth; it has taught me, through actual demonstration, the unreality of the fear of lack; it has destroyed hate in me and also the desire for revenge for some real or supposed wrong; it has shown me that those whom I supposed my worst enemies are really friends, inasmuch as their acts, although to appearance unfriendly at the time, were the means of bringing me into that state of despair which prepared me for Christian Science.
The most stubborn disease that I was healed of was catarrh of about twenty years' standing. For ten years I looked to materia medica for relief; first allopathy, then homoeopathy, then a specialist highly recommended was given a trial, but all without success.
I concluded to worry along with this unpleasant companion, trying different patent medicines as they were recommended to me. Then came a trial of sun baths, calisthenics, and cold water plunges (in winter), after a plunge came a pounding and rubbing the poor body, but all without the desired healing.
