Testimony of Healing April 11, 1908 Issue

I believe in Christian Science because in it I have found...

August Kahn

I believe in Christian Science because in it I have found a religion that can be put into practice every day and every hour of my life. It has helped me in times of sickness and health, in the home and in business, and has stood every test to which I have put it. I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, which I did not need at that time. but I was badly in need of a religion. Who or what God was, I had never known, only I was in terror whenever I heard His name mentioned. I had never read the Bible, and I had not the slightest idea of Christ Jesus as the Saviour of mankind. When Christian Science came into my life I had been out of employment for over a year and a half and was in desperate circumstances. At first I would not hear it spoken of, but when asked if I knew anything unfavorable about it. I could say nothing. Its "scientific statement of being,"

was what first interested me. It showed me clearly that man is the child of God, His image and likeness. In a couple of months after becoming interested in Christian Science I found employment. Up to that time I had attended but one Christian Science meeting (this was the first time I had ever entered a Christian church), but some Christian Science literature had been sent me, and this I earnestly read and tried to understand. From then on I grew, spiritually, mentally, and morally, and became more successful in my relations with mankind and in business. My entrance into Christian Science was over three years ago, and since then my salary has been increased to just four times the amount I originally received. In that time I have also been healed of serious illnesses through Christian Science.

After all that Christian Science has done for me, is it any cause for wonder that I am grateful? What a small word gratitude is compared to what we feel in our hearts. It can only be expressed by following our Leader's example and by having that Mind in us "which was also in Christ Jesus." — August Kahn, New York, N. Y.

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