I Have been a long time in fulfilling my duty toward the Journal and Sentinel for all the blessings and" lessons they have shown me through the loving testimony of some of their more obedient readers. Always when I have read the calls for more testimonials from the Field, I have said to myself, although knowing that the solicitation applied to me as well as to every other reader. "Not yet, not yet." All these years since coming into Christian Science in the year 1893. I have allowed myself to be held back by the self-condemning thought that I had not succeeded in overcoming fully certain claims about which I was most anxious, and, of course, following such a train of reasoning, and holding constantly to that anxious thought to be delivered, what has been the result? Greater timidity, and shrinking into self, and a forgetfulness of the multitude of benefits which the dear, loving Father has heaped upon me.
But at last, the voice of Truth has become so real and powerful within me, that the images of material sense, which have so long striven to destroy all of Truth there was sprouting within consciousness, are discerned in their true character, namely illusion, and I am no longer held in that torturing bondage, which whispers unworthiness, unfitness, and "Why don't you heal your own ills?"
I desire to speak with heartfelt gratitude of the great uplifting and purification which Christian Science has brought to me. Where once discord was my state, now freedom and a more even temper reign. Money seemed hard to get and hard to part with, but Science has removed both of those beliefs.
