Testimony of Healing February 18, 1905 Issue

The force of early training was so strong that I lived...

Edward L. Ripley

The force of early training was so strong that I lived with Christian Scientists for five years before I become conscious of needing that which I did not have. After losing all interest and satisfaction in a material sense of religion, and for a period caring naught for anything religious, I found that I was unable to cope with some very adverse conditions, and made up my mind to read Science and Health. During these five years I had been unwilling to read even a single page of the text-book or The Christian Science Journal, but I now bought a copy of Science and Health and began to read it in earnest. Never before did I find a book so interesting as this one. I could scarcely wait until I had read it through, and before I had finished the first reading I become thoroughly convinced that it contained the truth which makes free. Though I had but little need of physical healing, the continued reading and efforts to prove what I read to be true brought me gradually a larger freedom from old beliefs and a better state of physical health than I had ever known before. Soon I became a regular attendant at the Sunday morning and Wednesday evening meetings, and after two years I was privileged to have class instruction. During the progress of the class I lost all doubt and anxiety as to whether or not the teaching of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is true.

It is now five years since I first read Science and Health, and in that time every good thing that has been mine to have, use, and enjoy, in home, business, and otherwise, has come to me directly through Christian Science. While appreciative of all the good received in my early years and teaching, I am grateful for the better health and larger outlook which has come to me through Christian Science; but I am grateful most of all for the genuine spiritual uplifting; the abiding peace; the rest of soul; the love of the Bible, of God, and of His children, which have resulted from my study and effort to be a real Christian Scientist.

To the Sentinel and Journal, and to each and every one who is helping to spread this blessed truth, I cannot be too thankful, and especially to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who has opened the Bible for us and shown us the perfect adaptability and practicability of Jesus' teachings for our every need.—Edward L. Ripley, Kansas City, Mo.

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