Testimony of Healing October 29, 1904 Issue

I deem it a great privilege to tell others how I came into...

May W. H.

I deem it a great privilege to tell others how I came into Christian Science. A lady in Boston whom I have never met, sent me Science and Health, as she had heard of me and knew that I was in poor health and very despondent. She wrote me many beautiful letters, which were very helpful, and suggested that I read this book as a spiritual help. I began to read Science and Health in November, 1903, and as I perused it I found it to be a great help. I became so interested in it that I abandoned all other reading except my Bible. I attended church one Sunday evening in December and realized that it was unnecessary for me to trust any longer in drugs. I have not taken any medicine since. All my old troubles left me that night, and they have not returned.

I had been wearing glasses for ten years, but of late I could not read or sew with them any length of time without causing my eyes to ache. I therefore decided to consult an oculist and have new glasses. This was Sunday; I had the name of a specialist, and was intending to see him Monday, but decided to wait a day or two. Wednesday morning—a dark, rainy day—I felt a little downcast, but got Science and Health and began reading. About ten o'clock I was led to take off my glasses, which I did, but could not see the letters, so put them on again. After a half hour I again removed them and began to see the letters, then words, and I read five pages. A gleam of the spiritual dawn revealed to me that I was healed by my heavenly Father. I prayed and gave God thanks and knew that I was a Christian Scientist. God had healed me of my illness, and my spiritual thoughts convinced me that this was the true religion, for it revealed to me the Comforter.

I have also been able to overcome other ailments. Through my healing, a teacher boarding in the same house has been led into Christian Science, and four others are looking into it.

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