Testimony of Healing June 26, 1915 Issue

I wish to express my gratitude for the great blessings...

William A. Douglass

I wish to express my gratitude for the great blessings received in Christian Science, mentally, physically, and spiritually. While I have been healed of many ailments during the past five years, my first healing, that of influenza in two treatments, was the most wonderful to me. I had suffered from this complaint nearly every winter, and the attacks would last for two or three weeks, but the after effects from two to three months. I had tried all the "sure cures" I could find in materia medica without relief. A friend then recommended Christian Science, but as I did not know anything about it, I was not very enthusiastic. When he offered to take me to see a practitioner, however, I was about ready to try anything that promised relief, so I went with him. I talked with the Christian Scientist, but about all I remembered was that I could be healed.

After giving me a treatment, the practitioner told me to call again the next morning. I did not feel any immediate change in my condition, but I did feel somewhat better during the day, and accordingly went to see him, as requested, the following morning. While I took several more treatments to make sure that I was healed, I did not feel any effects of the ailment after the second. I have never had a severe cold since, or any return of the influenza, except a slight attack about a year ago, which was promptly overcome through Christian Science. This is very wonderful to me, as I had suffered almost continually from coughs and colds every winter. At the time I was healed the practitioner advised me to get a copy of the Bible,—I had never owned one,—also a copy of Science and Health and a Christian Science Quarterly. This I did, and consider it the best investment I have ever made, as these books have been my constant companions ever since.

Even with my limited understanding of Christian Science, I have always found it a present help in my business and every-day affairs. I am daily striving to use it more and more in meeting discordant conditions, and it has never failed to meet these difficulties when rightly applied. I am more than thankful to God for His wonderful works, and grateful to Mrs. Eddy for showing us how to come to Him to obtain these blessings. I am also grateful for the privilege of having the Christian Science publications, which are spreading the truth to the whole world, and to the many Scientists who have helped me along my way from sense to Soul. I only hope that I can help others as I have been helped.—William A. Douglass, San Francisco, Cal.

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