Testimony of Healing December 17, 1904 Issue

I desire to voice the thanks with which my heart has...

S. D. S.

I desire to voice the thanks with which my heart has been filled ever since the truth came into my consciousness, which it did with such clean-cut, logical reasoning, that after my first reading of Science and Health of an hour or more, I arose, knowing that I should have no more use for my small library of medical books, and my several cases of homœopathic remedies, of which I had made such diligent use that among my friends I had gained the title of doctor. Not only in my home and social circle, but also among our domestic animals and even my canaries had I found subjects on which to practise what I then believed to be the most scientific of healing arts, and until I read Science and Health I was so satisfied with these remedies that I had no desire to try other methods. My love for the Bible and my faith in its teachings were so great that I did not seek Christian Science expecting to gain more. Ever since I began to think for myself, the Bible had been the Book of books to me, yet during the past seven years Science and Health has been of the greatest benefit to me in reading my Bible. It has revealed truths before unseen and has made plain many obscure places. Now that I read the Scriptures in the light of Christian Science it is as though scales had fallen from my eyes, so that I am enabled to find treasures undreamed of before.

Each chapter in Science and Health supplies a specific need, but the glossary was for me the last one to be recognized at its true value. Now as I read and mentally digest it, the spiritual sense, which gives the original meaning of the Bible, is made clear.

When I remember how satisfied I was with both my religion and my medical beliefs, and how the truth revealed in Science and Health overthrew in an hour what mortal mind had been forty-six years in learning, I find it proves that truth—"the Word of God"—is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. To God, to our Leader, and to my teacher I give most grateful and loving thanks.—S. D. S., Berlin, Germany.

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