Three years ago I was a sufferer from what is known as Bright's disease, severe nervous exhaustion, with many symptoms of paralysis, respecting which attending physicians could offer little hope. For five months I was unable to attend to my professional duties, with the outlook, according to medical science, of never being able to do so. In this discouraging condition I was led to try Christian Science. I experienced marked benefit immediately, and was completely healed in less than six months. The physical benefits received led me to take up the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," that I might learn the reasons for my healing and understand the Principle of Christian Science.
While I was glad to give private testimony of my healing as soon as I experienced that blessing, yet I have been backward about accepting the teaching of Christian Science as the truth. From years of study, experimentation, and teaching, I have acquired a so-called careful analytical method of thinking, and for this reason each step has to be proven by demonstration before I can accept it and understand it as true. For eighteen years, prior to 1911, when I resigned, I had been head professor of materia medica, therapeutics, and special pathology in one of our largest university schools, and for nearly sixteen years I directed a laboratory for medical research. I therefore brought to this new study considerable prejudice, which doubtless accounts for my slowness in accepting and bearing public witness to the healing and redeeming power of Christian Science as taught and demonstrated by Mrs. Eddy.
After three years of constant, earnest daily study and investigation, during which time I have seen many cases of healing of all sorts of diseases, both functional and organic, I deem it a great privilege indeed to give this, my first testimony. These physical benefits have been the least of the blessings that have come to mine and me, for the spiritual regeneration, the joy and peace which have come through this earnest study and application of the basic teachings of Christian Science, has indeed made all things new. My thoughts are filled with the deepest sense of gratitude and a sincere desire to be helpful.— Chicago, Ill.
