Article September 21, 1899 Issue

Advised by a Specialist

L. B. BETHARDS

It was for healing alone that I came to Christian Science. I knew nothing about it except that it offered to heal. I was advised to try it by a specialist on nervous diseases who was then treating me. He said, "It can't do you any harm; they have done lots of good." Such advice from a practising medical man is certainly abundant evidence that I was in a bad condition and he could do no more for me. I did as advised. It is now over three years since that time. My troubles yielded slowly to Truth; many have disappeared entirely, and others are slowly leaving me. I am becoming less afraid of sin and sickness. I owe all the change for good to Christian Science, for it has been my only medicine. It is about two years since I again commenced my work as a travelling salesman. I travel over a large territory and am pleased to say I find Scientists almost everywhere I go, doing good work. They are kind, thoughtful, and enterprising people.

I have many times been of a criticising mind, and thought of ways which, it seemed to me at that time, would advance the cause of Christian Science more than the ways I saw practised, but I am fast learning that the wisdom which wrote "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," which has directed and established so thoroughly an organized church with rules so simple and yet farreaching, will always guide us in the best way; that I am perfectly safe in following and abiding in the advice and rules found in Science and Health, and the Christian Science "Church Manual." I am also learning that error is just as impersonal as Truth is impersonal.

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