Testimony of Healing July 16, 1904 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science...

Clyde Hendrie

I wish to express my gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. Nearly two years ago I left school, and with my dear mother went to California in search of health. I was suffering from stomach trouble and was held in constant bondage by the fear of food with its imaginary power. I had tried dieting until, at the time of meeting with Christian Science, I was living on two meals a day, which usually consisted of the white of an egg beaten up, and a little rice for breakfast, and in the evening some broth and a little more rice. These meals were interspersed with hot water. I tell the above simply to show the contrast with the meals I began to eat when I learned somewhat of man's dominion, and the practical truth of the Master's saying, "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" Pancakes, an indigestable food, according to materia medica, were eaten without pain. Right now this does not seem so wonderful, but when I think of the effects of the white of an egg, in the old way, compared with the effects of a pancake, in the new way, I then begin to realize that it was not stomach, but mortal mind, which suffered so, and that Christ, Truth, did come to my consciousness, and cast out this whimsical belief.

Since my acceptance of Christian Science I have seen many illustrations of the power of Truth, especially among my own folks. My mother has been wonderfully helped, and we both had the pleasure of uniting with the church here at the last communion. With humility and gratitude I thank God for His loving kindness in leading me from the darkness of mortal error into the light of divine Love as revealed to us in Mrs. Eddy's book, Science and Health.—Clyde Hendrie, Denver, Col.

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