Twenty-six years ago doctors pronounced their sentence of death upon me. I say "their sentence" because I soon learned that it certainly was not God's sentence. I was told that the difficulty was heart disease and that I had probably only two or three months to live.
Christian Science healed me. The healing required several months; however, I am very grateful for the purification of my thought which took place during that time. I learned that it was not my heart that was diseased, but my thinking. I was cherishing many sinful thoughts, carnal appetites of the flesh, which I had to get rid of before a healing could take place.
During the intervening years I have had many other remarkable healings, among them those of pneumonia, hemorrhages, and a stroke. Many of the healings were instantaneous. The stroke rendered me unconscious; my wife telephoned a practitioner, and when she returned from the telephone, I had regained consciousness and was walking around the house and talking rationally, although my speech was not quite normal. This condition disappeared within a few hours, and I was completely healed.
Of one thing I am certain: that no sickness or disease, accident or injury, lack, limitation, or any other inharmony can ever touch us unless we accept these conditions as real, and also that we shall be healed quickly or slowly, depending upon our alertness in detecting the error and replacing it with the truth concerning God and man.
To that wonderful woman, Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and gave to humanity Christian Science, I wish to express my everlasting gratitude. My sincere prayer is that I may help others, as I have been so wonderfully helped, through this religion.
Chicago, Illinois
