Testimony of Healing December 21, 1912 Issue

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for encouragement...

J. Kirby Smith with contributions from E. Blanche Smith, Mary Johnson Harris

It is with a deep sense of gratitude for encouragement and help received through the testimonials in our periodicals, that I write my own, in the desire to help some other sufferer as I have been helped. I was a member of a family in which lung trouble had claimed several, and fear of it took deep hold upon me. When quite young I sought relief in the climate of Florida, where through hard work and the exposures of a pioneer life I contracted malaria, which in spite of all that the physicians could do for me retained its grip for a number of years. A large part of that time I had chills with a regularity and rigor which was very discouraging. Finally, when I had been reduced to nervous collapse, we sought a northern climate, on recommendation of a physician, and I obtained a position which enabled me to travel. I hoped to regain health through constant change, but acute lung trouble and constant colds seemed to more than offset all hoped-for gain, either in health or financially.

Christian Science had been brought to our notice a number of times, but on account of prejudice it had always been rejected. I thought it might be good for others, but it could never reach my case. Finally, when my wife was so ill that we despaired of her ever recovering her health, a lady loaned us a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and I believe the first line of the Preface, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite today is big with blessings," roused us out of our sense of hopelessness; and the chapter on Prayer fully convinced us that we had found what we had always been looking for, namely, the truth that makes free. We then hunted up a practitioner and my wife took treatment for two weeks, with the result that she was so benefited that she advised me to try it. I did so, and after three treatments we gave up our varied assortment of medicine and medical appliances with a joyful sense of deliverance from bondage.

This was nearly five years ago, and since that time this truth has met our every need, and they have seemed to be many. Besideds various physical ailments, I was healed of a very bad tobacco habit, for which I had tried a number of material remedies; and I had also spent much money in trying to break myself of this habit. Thanks to Christian Science, tobacco no longer has power to tempt me, as the taste for it is entirely gone; and not alone this, but several others have been healed as a result of my experience. I am grateful not only for my own healing and that of my wife, but for the joyful fact that all may have this healing truth, no matter where they are or what their station in life, or what the nature of their trouble. I cannot express my gratitude to God for Christian Science, and for our dear Leader's unselfed life and tireless labor which brought us this truth.—J. Kirby Smith, Macon, Ga.

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