Testimony of Healing December 28, 1899 Issue

What Christian Science has Done for Me

Charles F. Meek

As much is said about the price of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I can say that I would have been willing to pay many times that amount for it several years ago, had I known its real value. A knowledge of its value came to me through bitter experience. After spending what money I had on hand, doctoring with a special oculist, I concluded to try an oculist in another city, as I had received no benefit from the one who was treating me. The first visit I had made him, he charged me ten dollars. Now I was ready to try the other oculist, and the first five visits he charged me twenty-five dollars,—five dollars for each few minutes' examination,—and besides I was having my glasses changed right along at additional expense.

When I stopped treatment with this oculist I was in a hospital and worse in every way. Now I was ready for Christian Science, and was healed by a week's treatment and the dear "little book,"—though a kind Scientist read the book to me until I was able to read it alone. With one week's treatment, I took off my glasses, and the completion of my healing was due to Science and Health. At first I purchased a cloth binding, but finding the book so valuable, was willing to pay two dollars more for one that I could carry in my pocket. Also I have learned through Science and Health that God is the source of supply, and have been able to pay every cent of what I owed for treatment with the oculist and in the hospital.

God has given this Truth through the right one. God has never made a mistake, and He surely has not now by giving this Truth through Mrs. Eddy, who daily labors, for the world, and, judging by the fruits of her labors, she is surely governed by God. True religion is not at peace with the world, and had not my Methodist friends been so bitter against the Truth, I might have been a Methodist a while longer, but I could not remain in a church that could not offer health, when there was one that gave it. My old church is saying that three or five dollars is too much for Science and Health; but to me it is the cheapest thing I have ever purchased. It teaches me how to meet many other needs.—Charles F. Meek, Baltimore, Md.

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