Testimony of Healing January 2, 1915 Issue

When on account of teaching in the evening schools I was...

Paul H. Shramm

When on account of teaching in the evening schools I was for many months deprived of being at the Wednesday evening meetings, it was a great privilege to have the testimonies in the Sentinel and Journal to read. I therefore send my testimony with a heart full of gratitude for the many blessings which have come to me during the past six years of regular and earnest study of Christian Science literature.

An artist in a strange land, dissatisfied, without means, without a religion, and swayed by influences beyond my control, I cared little for my existence, trusted nobody, and was afraid of everything. The first Christian Science service I attended in First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York city, was a true Christmas eve for me. It filled my heart with hope and happiness, and though very skeptical in the beginning, I am glad I followed out my decision to look into this teaching to see if there was any truth in it. Now I can laugh, and am almost ashamed of myself to think I ever could have been so blind as not at once to understand that the very Christ was leading me, and was indeed before me. How everything has changed! I can see now how for ignorance I have gained knowledge; for limitation I have infinite possibilities for good; for poverty I have all that I need; for fear of disease in myself and others I have a knowledge and understanding of Life.

As I studied Science and Health I began to see the possibility of improving my health, and I tested many sayings of Mrs. Eddy, thus working myself out of colds, hay-fever, pain, and all sorts of fears and habits of using material means for keeping well. As, like a feeble child, I grew out of many temptations and my horizon widened, I could understand more clearly than ever before the power of Truth. One day, after reading the pamphlet "Personal Contagion" and "What Our Leader Says," I had sufficient understanding instantaneously to heal a seemingly awful physical condition in a neighbor of mine. His wife wanted to run for a physician, since his throad, face, and eyes were swollen and he was unable to speak. A few words spoken, the reading of the pamphlet, and my study of the Lesson-Sermon, resulted in the fact that within eight hours the man was at work in his office. As a result of the giving of this experience in a testimony meeting last year in Buffalo, I am told that others realized for themselves the power of Truth to heal.

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