I am a train despatcher by profession, and through the healing by Christian Science which I have experienced, I am now able to continue in my responsible position, instead of having to give it up, disabled through a paralytic trouble of the right arm and hand. I had since childhood been troubled with severe nervousness, accompanied by headaches, etc., which rendered me at times unable to work. This trouble culminated in the condition above mentioned. I had treatment from many regular physicians and numerous medical methods, including electric treatment, baths, etc., extending over a period of seven years, but never received any help from them, and I was at last plainly told that there was no cure for me. At this time the trouble had continued for eight years, the latter two of which I was obliged to do my work as best I could with my left hand, for I could not hold the telegraph key in my right.
To say that I was in a very discouraged state when Christian Science came to me would not be conveying a correct idea of what it has lifted me out of. I was discordant, irritable, hopeless; everything seemed to be against my recovery. As there was at that time no practitioner in Fairhaven, I went to Ottawa, put myself under the care of one of Mrs. Eddy's students there, and soon experienced a great change. I was entirely healed of all the physical disabilities of years' standing, the tobacco habit included, and I am another man. I can do a larger amount of work with greater ease and confidence than ever before. Like thousands of others who try to express their gratitude through the periodicals, I must say that great as has been the physical healing, to-day the spiritual is to me far greater. It has given me a different view of life altogether and has made my work a pleasure. I no longer begin the day with dread of it, but walk to my duties with a thankful heart. I owe all that I am to-day, and all of good that may come to me, to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, whom I count it a privilege to call Leader. In our home for the last five years Christ, Truth, has been our only physician. My wife and children unite with me in loving gratitude.
, Farnham, Quebec. A correction was made in the July 1907 Journal: "In the testimony of James B. Smith which appeared on page 103 of the May Journal, 'Fairhaven' should read Farnham, Quebec."
