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It has been my desire for several...

From the April 1913 issue of The Christian Science Journal


It has been my desire for several months to have others know what Christian Science has done for me. I had been a great sufferer from rheumatism for many years, it being considered hereditary in my family; I had, in fact, despaired of ever being well again. I was almost helpless, could not walk without the support of a stick, could not dress or undress myself, and had to be waited on like a little child. I was also so drawn up that I could not straighten myself out on the bed. My children had spent hundreds of dollars in trying many doctors and every material remedy that they heard of, but I could only get temporary relief.

About two years ago my daughter visited me and persuaded me to give Christian Science a trial, as she had seen a case which had been healed by it. I consented though I had no faith in it. When the practitioner came, I was suffering from a severe headache, which was banished in a few minutes. I thought then there must be something in it, and after a few days' treatment I put away my stick and left off the glasses that I had worn for thirty years. I was then sixty-five years old. In the past year I have done work that I have not been able to do in nineteen years, and I have used neither medicine nor any other material remedy since my first treatment. The Bible is a new book to me since I began to study it with Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Christian Science is a great blessing to me also, and I shall always endeavor to live its teachings. I am truly thankful to God for having been so lovingly helped.—

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