Testimony of Healing August 19, 1905 Issue

The desire to help and encourage others constrains me...

E. Coldridge

The desire to help and encourage others constrains me to add my simple testimony of benefits received from christian Science. I first heard of it a year ago, when on a visit to friends. I had been suffering many years from various complaints, supposed to be the result of a constant formation of excessive quantities of uric acid. I was rigidly dieted, and had to avoid damp, east winds, and over-fatigue. My physician stated that these precautions were essential to my tenure of life. For more than forty years I had suffered from varicose veins in my legs, which had necessitated my wearing six yards of bandage on each, elastic stockings being of no service. The study of our text-book began to awaken my consciousness to understand my relation to God; it revealed in some degree the presence of Truth, and explained the power of Love. Chronic constipation disappeared, rheumatism was combated, the alleged dietary laws were gradually discarded as being inconsistent with the law of love and liberty, and our Saviour's commandment, "Take no thought . . . what ye shall eat." Subsequently, an acute attack of sciatica was overcome in three days. Finally the bandages were laid off, and a complete demonstration over the varicose veins obtained. Some few months after this, eczema attacked my legs, but this also was vanquished. My health is now established, or rather the diseases which for years seemed so terribly real have been disestablished.

I know that death is no friend, and I long to rise to clearer views of the eternal verities of being. In the mean time I see enough to feel the deepest gratitude to Mrs. Eddy and her followers.—E. Coldridge, London, Eng.

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