Testimony of Healing December 31, 1904 Issue

For eleven years I have been the grateful recipient of...

C. A. Kirkpatrick

For eleven years I have been the grateful recipient of manifold blessings through Christian Science. When I had my first treatment and was healed by this wonderful truth, I was an ardent member of a dear old church which I loved, and love still. I thought that its teachings were perfectly satisfactory and did not care to have a better way; indeed, did not think there could be a better way. I thought, however, that I would like this new way for the physical healing, consequently I purchased a copy of Science and Health and quickly read it through. I did not study it, but thought from what little understanding I gleaned from so hurried a reading of it, that it would be an easy religion to live, but that if I gave up my old way of serving God for Christian Science I might lose all, so I laid the book aside, afraid to have anything more to do with it.

For nearly two years I went to church and worshiped in my accustomed way, but I grew seriously ill, and my husband sent for the practitioner again. She came and stayed three weeks, laboring with much patience and earnestness to show me the true way, and I praise God that the scales did fall from my eyes. I saw that the new way was only the same old way, with the overhanging vines, underbrush, and poisonous plants of material sense cleared away by the pruning hook of divine Science, and the path illumined by spiritual understanding.

I then took Science and Health and began to study its great truths and apply them in my daily living for myself and family. Sometimes the problem to be met seems so hard that we have help from our dear, faithful practitioner. I have witnessed error in many forms, both mental and physical, go down under the battle axe of truth, even to the bringing back from the grave, as it seemed, of both my husband and daughter. I have also proved the healing effect of Christian Science over diseases among the stock and poultry on the farm,—poisonous bites, stings, and many other manifestations of error. Surely this new-old way does disclose a "goodly land," a land of peace and joy and gladness, where all is good, pure, beautiful, and true.

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