Testimony of Healing August 12, 1905 Issue

What Christian Science has done for me in the last eighteen...

R. H. Blackmore

What Christian Science has done for me in the last eighteen months, it would take too long for me to tell, but I will relate some of the benefits I have received. My eyes were badly affected, so much so that at times I could not see large print; but through reading Science and Health and making a study of the same, my sight was restored. It is stronger than it ever was before. This was my first proof of the truth in Christian Science.

My second experience of the power of this truth was on a voyage from the west coast of South America to Hamburg, Germany, when my steward became violently insane. This condition was brought on through fits, which he had very often. He became so violent that it took three men to hold him. Christian Science treatment was given him by a lady on board ship, and in less than four hours the man was in perfect health, going on with his duties; and to my knowledge he has never had a return of the insanity or the fits. This was about twelve months ago.

My third experience was on the same voyage, when we were blocked in the ice nine hundred miles southeast of Cape Horn. It was winter, and we had but a few hours' daylight. To mortal sense it seemed that nothing I could do would save the ship, with all on board, from destruction. Before night set in, I went into my chart-house and asked God, in spiritual prayer, to guide me out of this danger. I received my answer, which was contrary to all nautical experience, but I acted on it at once, and when daylight came I then had the proof that God had saved the ship from destruction. Daylight revealed to all that the course which the ship had sailed over was completely blocked with icebergs from five hundred to a thousand feet high.

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