The testimonies of healing done in Christian Science which I have read in the official publications and have heard at the Wednesday evening meetings, have been so important a factor in the growth of my understanding and demonstration of the truth, that I feel it to be a duty to tell the story of my own healing.
About five years ago I met a Christian Scientist for the first time. I had scarcely ever heard of Mrs. Eddy or her discovery until my return to Boston from a three years' sojourn in the Orient. ' When I looked upon The Mother Church, that beautiful monument to her work, I remarked. "How preposterous that the youngest church in Boston should have the largest dome." I did not learn until later that Christian Science represents the oldest, the purest, the truest interpretation of Christianity—as proved by its works.
When I first heard of Christian Science I was not in need of physical healing, but in search of the truth. From youth up I had thought that the greatest thing in the world is the pursuit of and the dissemination of the truth. So I had sought it in the public schools of my native town and in the higher institutions of learning of the commonwealth; had also pursued it in the evangelical churches and in the experiences of life. I saw very soon that the point of view of Christian Science was not the intellectual viewpoint of academic education, but that the truth was breaking through along the avenue of spiritual perception.
