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About the middle of January...

From the May 1917 issue of The Christian Science Journal


About the middle of January, 1915, after exhausting every remedy known to the medical profession for the relief of a stubborn cough of years' standing, I was invited to visit the Christian Science church, and attended a Wednesday evening meeting with my brother. At the close of the meeting I met many pleasant people, and was greatly impressed with their kindness and interest in me, when my past life had been so full of sin.

The next day I secured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and began to read it. I soon decided it was the truth, and at once visited a practitioner's office, where I got my first glimpse of a God who was near and who cared for me. I read the book at every opportunity, and soon found that the taste for tobacco and liquor had gone, and that all the sins common to such habits were leaving me; even the places of entertainment I formerly enjoyed had lost all attraction for me. My cough too gradually yielded, and I was able to lay aside glasses after having worn them for twelve years. I have also been healed of a violent temper and a sullen disposition; and where once the world seemed to have only hardships for me, I now enjoy the happiness and freedom of one who can claim man's birthright,—dominion over all.

About a year ago I suffered from an abscess, the result of a rectal trouble. A surgeon who examined it seemed to feel that an operation was inevitable; but I turned again to Christian Science, and through the faithful efforts of the practitioner the abscess soon entirely disappeared, also a skin disease which had affected different parts of my body for years.

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