Having begun my fourth year in Christian Science, it seems to me high time that I should join in the word of joyful testimony as to the immense good this healing and saving truth brings to all who will accept it with humility. I had read one or two numbers of the periodicals with interest; and having been given a copy of the text-book, I began at once, like thousands of others, to derive physical benefit from the study of it. A mild form of eye trouble, which had necessitated the use of reading-glasses, began to lessen; and upon their being laid aside they were lost, and never replaced.
The interesting part of my recovery has been, that I had to wait a shorter time, on each occasion of reading, for the difficulty in vision to disappear. I had suffered much from frequent attacks of rheumatic trouble for about twenty years, but now all signs of it are gone, and with it some other ailments. A finger-joint which had become enlarged and stiff from an injury received about seven years ago, is now almost normal: moreover, a similar injury to my foot, in childhood, has now been made good. My present immunity from cramp, and reduced susceptibility to colds, might have seemed astonishing in the old way of thinking, but I have been enabled, by declaring the truth, to heal myself quite quickly of these and other disorders.
Besides these, I could enumerate very many other painful physical complaints, which have been either healed or greatly alleviated in the last three years; also, quick recovery from accidents. More important still, there is a list of at least eight faults of character which, thank God, through Christian Science are lessening. For some of these moral defects, after detection and due acknowledgment, I applied for two or three separate treatments in Science; and this course, I am thankful indeed to feel, has brought considerable improvement. Other young students might be well advised to go and do the same. The desire to smoke gradually left me, and finding it going, I quietly laid down my pipe, knowing it to be "my last;" and so it was, as the craving for it disappeared inside of five days. This habit had been pronounced for nearly thirty years, but it went after only two months' study of Christian Science.
