With a heart full of gratitude to God, and with the hope of benefiting others as I have been helped through reading the testimonies, I record here some of the blessings received through my study and application of Christian Science.
In 1930 I spent a year traveling in the Philippine Islands, where I contracted amoebic dysentery and also sprue, a tropical disease for which medical science at that time knew no cure. Failing to receive help from the doctors in the islands, I returned to the United States and for four years received treatment from one of the doctors in an outstanding school of tropical medicine. At the end of that time I was worse than when treatment was begun, and I was existing on a diet which excluded starches, commercial sugar, and fats.
Thoroughly discouraged and unable properly to carry on my work as an office salesman, I grasped eagerly at the recommendation that I try Christian Science. I had heard of it for the first time a few months before.
