Testimony of Healing November 16, 1899 Issue

Helped by Reading Science and Health

E. B. F.

As it is frequently claimed that the price of Christian Science literature is too high, perhaps it would be a benefit to relate the following incident.

A lady came to me who knew nothing of Christian Science, only having heard the name. During our conversation she said, "My husband is feeling quite sick to-day, in fact he has not been well since his sickness three years ago when he had the diabetes. The doctors gave him up to die, but he made the remark, 'I will fool those doctors yet.' He recovered so he was able to be up around, but said he was in almost constant pain." I told her something of Christian Science, and said if he would get our text-book, Science and Health, and read it faithfully, I thought it would be all he would need, as many were healed through reading it. She said, "Oh no; he never reads books; he reads the papers, but I never knew him to read a book." Her husband came to see me the next day and I talked with him about Science and what it had done for my family and some others whom he knew. He said, "I believe I will get that book."

That was about Christmas, 1898. I saw him again about the last of January, 1899, when he said, "I have read that book through five times and I am just beginning to read it. I have not felt as well in a long time." He is about seventy-eight years of age. He seemed very happy. I said, "Well, Mr. C., do you think three dollars too much for that book?" He looked at me quite surprised at such a question, and said, "No," emphatically; "three hundred would not be too much if I could not get it at a less price." I saw him again in July, and he had finished reading it the tenth time and was still reading. I have a feeling of pity for those who think of money as an equivalent for Christian Science.—E. B. F.

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