Testimony of Healing October 2, 1920 Issue

I am giving the following testimony regarding Christian Science...

Henry A. North

I am giving the following testimony regarding Christian Science because, having received the greatest benefits from its study over a period of more than three years, I am glad to express gratitude and to share with others the lessons learned from my experience.

When I started studying Christian Science I had previously tried many plans, including denominational Christianity, in the endeavor to improve my life, which was very unsatisfactory. These plans had all failed in that they did not produce lasting results and were all dropped after a longer or shorter trial. I finally became convinced that my difficulties were caused at bottom by regarding material things as the essentials of life, and I started looking around to find some religion, or plan of living which put spiritual things first. I had heard of Christian Science and determined to give it a fair trial since what I had heard indicated that it, at least, was not a plan of living that regarded material things as of first importance. A trial of a few weeks convinced me that Christian Science was wonderfully different from anything else I had ever tried, in that the honest application of its rules was certainly tending to produce the results that I had become almost hopeless of attaining. Once convinced of this I continued the study and practice of Christian Science to the present time.

As a result I am entirely freed from nervous debility, manifested in severe fatigue after a few hours of work, which was a result of nervous prostration. I had for a long time, on my physician's advice, been in the habit of leaving work after lunch to lie down for an hour or two, but I now work regular office hours, and often evenings, without discomfort. Other results are a steady and rapid increase in my salary—I now receive over four times the salary I was receiving when I started studying Christian Science, and I have the satisfaction of feeling the increase to be fully earned; a much more harmonious home life; the gradual stopping of drinking, which I knew by experience was making me much trouble and which had been growing on me; the rapid cure of a number of unpleasant symptoms remaining after nervous prostration, such as continual trouble with my eyes, limiting me in the use of them for reading; backache, insomnia, irritability, extreme sensitiveness to heat and cold; dislike of mixing with people, et cetera. Almost any manufacturer will admit that the past three years have presented peculiarly difficult problems. Some of these problems have for me been satisfactorily solved, or are in a process of solution, through the application of Christian Science by a practitioner.

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