I have often wanted to give my testimony regarding the great benefits I have received from Christian Science, but have always been held back by the thought that nobody. would care particularly for such experiences as mine; however, in the last two years, constituting the time of my practice, I have not known one testimony that has not in some particular been a great help to me as well as to my patients. So, hoping that my case will prove of value to some one, somewhere, I cheerfully give it.
When I first heard of Christian Science and commenced to read Science and Health, I was a slave to the tobacco and liquor habits, which had already brought and were still bringing to me many miserable, unhappy, and sickly conditions.
I was brought up in the Presbyterian faith, and notwithstanding the kindness, gentleness, and loving persuasion of my pastor, Sabbath School teacher, and friends, my spiritual progress was interfered with by the following questions and propositions which were ever presenting themselves to my unsatisfied thought: If God has all knowledge and all power, if I cannot turn my hand over without His permission, if I can think only as He thinks, then I must do and must have done always as He foreordained, and I cannot by right or wrong avert my fate. And again, Why did God create evil? If God created hell, He did so before He created man, since man was God's last creation and all was looked upon and pronounced "very good." What was the object in creating this hell and for whom?
