IT is with heartfelt thankfulness that I hereby make public acknowledgment of the great blessings which have come to me through the study and practice of Christian Science in my daily life. I find it quite impossible, however, to give adequate expression to my gratitude for the innumerable benefits I have derived from this wonderful truth. Any one who has experienced, as I have, the tortures of sleeplessness and its attendant evils will understand what I have suffered. Medical skill and material remedies of various kinds were tested to the utmost; a specialist in nervous diseases, physical culture, numerous vacations, and a trip abroad, were in turn resorted to, but failed to give the desired relief.
In almost utter despair I took up Christian Science, though it was with many misgivings that I did so, for I presumed that it was another "fad," and I had become thoroughly tired of experimenting. I determined before taking treatment to look into the subject, and accordingly purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. I began a perusal of the book, and it was the investigation of this great subject which completely restored me to health. It has now been more than six years since I began the study of Christian Science, and in all that time I have not lost an hour from my business on account of illness nor have I taken any medicine or used material remedies of any kind. At the same time I was cured of stomach trouble from which I had suffered almost all my life. I had been obliged to live on a very strict diet, depriving myself of many articles of food of which I was fond. Now I can eat anything that is set before me without suffering the slightest inconvenience. The smoking habit, in which I had indulged for many years, departed at the same time.
The spiritual regeneration and uplift which I have experienced as a result of the study of Christian Science have been far more to me than has been the release from physical ills. Now I know what genuine happiness is, and when I realize from what depths of despondency and woe I have come, and contrast my former condition of mind and body with that of the present, no language will accurately describe my gratitude to God, or express my thanks to Mrs. Eddy, who has shown us how to make practical application of the truth contained in His Word.
