With a heart full of gratitude to God, and also to our Leader, I wish to add my testimony to the practical efficacy of the healing power of Christian Science. For thirteen years Truth has been our physician. Christian Science came into our home when not a ray of light was visible; sorrow from the loss of a mother and a little daughter, attacks of sickness, and illhealth, were as clouds of darkness, when the "still small voice" was heard, "Let there be light: and there was light." This daystar was dimly seen through the playmate of my little girl, and the seed then planted, germinated and grew, until it has rooted out of the soil much selfishness, selfpity, and self-justification, that the true idea might bear fruit.
During these thirteen years many physical difficulties have been overcome, among which were a fever in its severest form, throat and bronchial trouble, extreme nervousness, the worst form of indigestion of long standing,—all healed through the help of a practitioner and the study and application of Christian Science. Besides these ills there was also the healing to a great extent of a disfigurement due to a serious accident. I was one of the many at the Chicago Iroquois theater fire in December, 1903, and my face and hands were terribly burned. The right hand, which was for a time in a half-open position, is now perfectly normal and natural; the mouth is no longer drawn and misshapen, and there is little indication of a disfigured face. The physical suffering, however, was slight as compared with that due to sensitiveness, human pity, and personal opinion; but all this was healed by the effort to hold to God's promises and by the ever-present help of these words from Science and Health (p. 527): "Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete;" so I raise my voice in that song of songs, "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow." — Rockford, Ill.
