Testimony of Healing May 20, 1905 Issue

Having been greatly benefited by the truth, as set fourth...

Charles Baker Gilbert

Having been greatly benefited by the truth, as set fourth by our beloved Leader, I desire to express my thankfulness therefore. Mortal mind has suggested waiting until an old physical ailment, carried since childhood, should be met, but I feel that it would be base ingratitude to withhold my acknowledgment any longer. I have known of Christian Science for about eight years, having turned to it for help when materia medica failed. Though greatly helped, I was not wholly freed from the ailment, and failing in early attempts at demonstration, interest gradually lessened, until this Science seemed only a beautiful theory, —too ideal for realization on this plane of existence.

A few months ago, however, crushed by misfortune, one reverse coming fast on the heels of another, until existence was torture and suicide semed the only solution, I was driven to take up Christian Science in earnest. I did not want physical healing, so much as spiritual, for mortal mind could no longer endure the strain of its own discords. The change has been slow, at times discouraging, but many old ailments have disappeared, among these being profanity and a violent temper, both of which I had indulged for years. When a child, I was taught to hate one who had wronged my father, and later, upon losing parents and home, this feeling gradually developed into a sense of hatred and resentment toward nearly every one I met or knew, and any friendships became impossible. I am thankful to state that this too has been reduced to its native nothingness, and I know that nothing but divine Principle could have wrought such a change. The destruction of these evils has been more to me than any physical healing have been.

Charles Baker Gilbert, Philadelphia, Pa.

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