Testimony of Healing April 3, 1902 Issue

After about seven years of health and benefits received...

C. A. I. with contributions from L. PIERCE BARNES

After about seven years of health and benefits received from Christian Science, I feel it my duty to offer for publication an acknowledgment of the great good that has come to me through Christian Science.

For all these years I have felt that I owed this just acknowledgment to Truth. I was under bondage to numerous ills, chief of which was dyspepsia with its concomitants, such as bad liver, diseased kidneys, heart trouble, etc. I had tried all usual methods from material standpoints. After materia medica came massage, electropoise, mineral springs, sea voyage, etc. After becoming almost totally discouraged and disheartened, I commenced to investigate several of the different religious faiths, thinking I ought to prepare to die. I did not find anything there that appealed to me.

One dark, dismal day (to my thought) my wife asked me why I did not try Christian Science. It seemed to me that she had struck the right note, and I said I believed I would. My wife was not a Scientist, but we had had a lady living with us who was, and she unknowingly directed me to those who were not Christian Scientists. After a few days of treatment and talk with a believer in that faith, and receiving no help, in a conversation she denied Mrs. Eddy's being the Founder of Christian Science. I found I had gotten on the wrong track. The same day or the next I went to see a loyal student of our dear Mother. I commenced treatment with this loving disciple. I think I was about as discordant and discouraged a person as could possibly exist in this belief. There did not seem to be one ray of light, all looked dark and gloomy and my friends thought I had not long to stay with them. I cannot forget how patiently and lovingly my healer led me out of that dense darkness and fear. Little by little I gained courage, until in about three weeks I seemed to have gotten out into the great sunshine of God's dear Love.

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