Testimony of Healing April 30, 1904 Issue

I feel that I owe a large debt to Christian Science for the...

Frederick Grote

I feel that I owe a large debt to Christian Science for the benefit I have received through its teaching. I will explain how I came to be healed of piles of twenty-five years' standing, for which I had used all kinds of remedies without any relief. I finally went to a doctor, who examined me and pronounced it a case of fistula. He said that an operation would be needed to cure me, but I did not like the idea.

After another experiment, which proved a failure, I came home in 1901 and a friend offered me a Christian Science Sentinel and asked me to read it. That was the first I had ever heard of Christian Science. I began to have faith in it, so I bought Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health, but before I had read it through I went to my friend to get the address of a practitioner and wrote to her stating my case and asking if she would treat me. She answered that she would take my case, and strange as it may seem, especially to those who have never heard of Christian Science, about the time the lady received my letter there seemed a wonderful change in me, as if a great burden was taken off, and a peace never known before came over me. In her answer to the last letter the practitioner advised me to do away with all material remedies, to keep on reading the Bible and Science and Health. Before I was aware of it my troubles had left me, also a desire for intoxicating drink, although I worked some in a brewery at that time. I had other beautiful demonstrations of the power of Truth, which never failed me in time of need. I have no desire to read anything besides Mrs. Eddy's writings (and I have the most of them), also the Journal, Sentinel, the Quarterly, and Herold, which are welcome friends whenever they come.

When I look to the past, I now can see how wonderfully God has lead me all my life to be spared to come into Christian Science, to find the friend who offered me the Sentinel, to find the practitioner, and to be granted the privilege of taking class instruction, also to be found worthy to be accepted as a member of the Mother Church and this local church. The only way I can express my thanks for the benefit I have received through Christian Science is to live up to its tenets, to be a living example to my comrades, to be able to live without any bad habits.

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