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With the hope that in relating my own experience in...

From the July 1909 issue of The Christian Science Journal


With the hope that in relating my own experience in Christian Science I may be of help to some other young man who is trying to feel satisfied with so-called worldly pleasures, I gratefully give this testimony. Christian Science came to me twice in about five months, in times of great need, and I can truly say that all I am today, and all I ever aspire to be, I owe to this truth.

I came West about the spring of 1908, and I had not been here ten days when I awoke one morning with what seemed an alarming condition affecting my hands and my right side. I had experienced this trouble to a certain degree before, but this time I steadily grew worse, so that in a few days I had to be fed and assisted in walking. After having my case diagnosed by a physician, and being told that there was little that could be done for me, I turned to Christian Science, feeling that I might perhaps be cured; but even if I were not, I would still have the satisfaction of knowing I had done what I could.

My improvement was hardly noticeable at first, and after being for five weeks in a most helpless condition, I nearly gave up the treatment, for I had worked as faithfully as I could according to the directions of my practitioner. However, I still felt that Christian Science was what I needed, and I persevered, although certain conditions seemed to be aggravated, including imperfect sight. I changed my boarding-place, hoping to get away from the associations which were so unpleasant to me. The first treatment in a new place seemed to break my dream of helplessness, and I arose one night, stood on my feet alone for the first time in some weeks, and turned on the light in my room, this being the first time that I had been able to move my fingers even in the slightest degree.

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