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From the June 1922 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Christian Science has brought me so many blessings that it is difficult to know where to begin in enumerating them. It is more than twenty years since I first heard of this truth and turned to it with a faint hope of finding the physical healing which I greatly needed. I had been suffering for seven years from a very severe digestive trouble, and was far below a normal condition of health. Medicine, and careful adherence to medical advice, had failed to cure me; and I was almost ready to believe that there was nothing left for me but a weary existence of semi-invalidism.

I shall never cease to be grateful that at this time a friend told me of a remarkable case of healing through Christian Science that had occurred in the city in which I was then living. So far as I remember, I had never heard the words "Christian Science" before. An interview with the person reported to have been healed, convinced me that the case was genuine. I also learned that a Christian Science practitioner was to be in the city on certain days of the week, and I decided to try this method of treatment. Upon my first visit to the practitioner, she told me of some of the simpler truths of Christian Science and loaned me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, saying that it was a book which it was probable I would always want. At the time this seemed a strange remark, for I could not understand why I should desire always to have a book of that kind; but I long ago learned that her words were true, and that the "little book" is a treasure of which no Scientist would willingly be deprived.

I was not quickly healed; but after a few weeks of treatment and of reading the textbook I received sufficient physical and mental help to feel that I had at last found something which, if faithfully followed, was able to effect a cure. I had no further treatment but continued to read and to improve in health, until at length the bondage of fear and of belief in medical law was completely broken, and I was restored to health and strength. As Mrs. Eddy has beautifully said on page 442 of Science and Health: "The prisoner rose up regenerated, strong, free;" adding, "Divine Love had cast out fear.''

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