Testimony of Healing November 25, 1905 Issue

Like many others, I came to Christian Science in search...

William Royle

Like many others, I came to Christian Science in search of help from physical suffering. For years I had tried to gain and ensure health by a careful application of the rules laid down by leading authorities on diet, hygiene, physical culture, and hydropathic treatment, and yet I was a constant victim of dyspepsia, rheumatism, and catarrhal colds. For eight sucessive winters I suffered from attacks of the worst type of influenza, which so shattered my nerves that I became a prey to violent outbursts of temper, and was readily influenced by the event of the hour. I was in turn hopeful or despondent, as the circumstance inclined me. Happily a relative, who was a Christian Scientist, knowing my need, suggested that I try Christian Science, and gave me a few of the periodicals to read. I found in them so much which appealed to me. that I wanted to know more, and I purchased the text-book. Science and Health, the reading of which brought me much help. Meantime I had given up all material remedies, and with the little knowledge I had gained, tried to follow implicitly the teaching of Christian Science. Just at this period I had a recurrent attack of influenza, and after trying ineffectually to overcome it I wrote to one of our practitioners for absent treatment. The result was instantaneous relief from the ailment, and I have not had an attack since. This experience, coming so soon after my first acquaintance with Christian Science, made a deep impression on me. From that time I became more earnest in my reading, and have been able to overcome the fear and troubles which for so long had held me in seeming bondage.

My joy for the deliverance has been great, for I had come to look upon my ailments as inseparable from my human experience; but the gain of freedom in this respect is small compared with the freedom brought to me by having learned to overcome the fear, the cares, and the worries ordinarily ac counted inseparable from business. At first I was slow to apply the Christian Science teaching, as I looked upon business affairs at that time as altogether outside the range of Christian Science, but occasion came when I was in extreme need of help, and I was led to make my first demonstration, and like the first treatment for my physical need. the appeal to Truth was instantly effective Since then I have learned to rely constantly upon Christian Science, to see how the truth may be applied to every circumstance in business life, and the harmony I now enjoy no words can adequately express, for now I am free and know no dominion but that of divine Love.

My gratitude to Mrs. Eddy deepens day by day, as I grow to a fuller understanding of the priceless blessings she has opened up to all by her discovery of Christian Science, and by her ceaseless labor of love in unfolding its treasures so that each one who will may come into the full fruits of her labor and self-sacrifice. I pray that my gratitude may find a full expression in my emulation of her loving, selfless life.—William Royle, Manchester, England.

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