With a desire to express my gratitude for Christian Science, and with the thought of helping others to be free from physical ills, I take great pleasure in sending in my testimony for publication.
For ten years I suffered untold agonies from what the doctors called inflammatory rheumatism, which would lay me up for three or four months each year. I tried almost everything for it; even went to the delightful climate of California, but found no relief there. I came back a complete wreck, all broken down in health, and so badly crippled that I had to use crutches most of the time. As I was hobbling along the street one day, I passed a Christian Science church, and noticed a sign reading, "Free Lecture on Christian Science." Although I did not know what Christian Science was, I was very desirous to attend the lecture and managed to get there, but in great pain. I shall never forget what a grand lecture that was about God and man, and man's relation to God. From then on, the light began to dawn on me; and having caught some of the crumbs that had fallen, I certainly went home a much wiser and happier man.
The next Sunday I attended the Christian Science church, and was advised to secure a textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This I did, and have read and reread it. I soon began to experience some of the most beautiful healings, both physical and spiritual. The tobacco habit of long standing left me completely; and as I began to understand more about God, and of the relation man bears to Him, that God is Mind, divine Principle, I began to put off the "old man" and take on the "new." Rheumatism, profanity, and temper left me; and I have had no use for cane or crutches since. I now weigh one hundred and eighty pounds. I have taken no medicine of any kind since turning to Christian Science, and am enjoying the best of health, with no pains or aches. For all of this I am deeply grateful to God and to Christ Jesus, the Way-shower; also to our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, for giving us a book which unfolds the truth. I am also grateful for the Christian Science periodicals.
