Testimony of Healing May 8, 1902 Issue

Reading the chapter on "Fruitage" in the new edition...

R. P. V.

Reading the chapter on "Fruitage" in the new edition of Science and Health has awakened a sense of responsibility to give to others, who have not had a like experience, an account of our new birth in Christian Science.

In the early part of 1892 I returned from the last of a series of voyages from Liverpool to the West Coast of Africa, in a condition of health that was most discouraging, having contracted several chronic disorders, such as dyspepsia, liver complaint, nervous debility, etc. The future seemed dark and uninviting and life hardly worth living. At this time I was introduced to a Christian Scientist who told me of Mrs. Eddy and her great discovery. She gave me a copy of Science and Health which I began to read at once, with the greatest interest. The healing did not impress me at first so much as the wonderful logic and practical common sense that characterized Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the Bible, and the clear explanations of the hitherto unanswered theological problems which had bothered me so long.

This intelligent religion, free from creed and superstition, which could be practised and proved daily, and which offered an assurance of a constantly brightening future, with renewed opportunities for doing good, so appealed to my sense of reason, that I accepted Christian Science as a whole, without reservation, feeling instincitively that it was a gift of God to a spiritually starved world.

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