It is now several years since I went to a Christian Science practitioner for treatment for a chronic bowel difficulty. For more than thirty years I had been a sufferer, taking remedies for this ailment from the very best physicians, both here and elsewhere, but they afforded me only temporary relief; in fact, my condition was even worse after using their remedies. I was seventy-five years of age when I placed myself under the care of the practitioner, and in a very short time the power of Truth made itself manifest not only in respect to this infirmity but with other ailments as well.
It is with thankfulness and great pleasure that I tell not only of the physical healing after years of suffering and the failure of material methods to heal me, but of the real happiness that has come to me in the last four years. It would take too much space to write of this in detail, but I gladly tell of the joy and comfort I receive each day in my study of the Lesson-Sermons and all of the literature bearing on this great revelation. As I go on, I feel more and more an inexpressible nearness to the great finder of the discarded jewel, and I rejoice with many that she lived to accomplish this great work. I am now nearly eighty years of age, and I think that many can unite with me in my truly honest feelings regarding this matter which has become so sacred to me. I have been working earnestly for the truth since I relinquished membership in the church which was for years so dear to me, but which failed in giving me that which I now see and know I needed.
I am more than grateful to acknowledge my entire cure. I look on this great change as an evidence of divine love and power, also a fulfilment of the promise to those who seek "first" the kingdom of God and His righteousness.— Rutledge, Pa.
