Testimony of Healing March 4, 1916 Issue

A deep feeling of gratitude urges me to make public acknowledgment...

Dirk A. Bossen

A deep feeling of gratitude urges me to make public acknowledgment of the benefits I have received through Christian Science. I hope this testimony may lead some one to study this Science, and if it ever comes under the eyes of a naval officer I can only tell him that nothing else in the world can give him such rest and peace in times of storm and danger. Before I became acquainted with Christian Science I was subject to a bad physical condition which dated from my childhood. Every year I grew worse, and it was in this serious state that Christian Science found me. I understood very little of it, and clung tenaciously to fear and doubt; hence disappointment was the result. At that time I gave it up, but the hope remained that the time would come when I would know and understand the truth.

Three years later I had a talk with a Scientist, and this made such an impression on me that all doubt was gone. I saw that I had to take up my work again, being a naval officer, and so went to see a Christian Science practitioner to ask her to give me treatment before my departure and during my first voyage. I can say that I experienced no trouble of any kind, and many ills were overcome. The extreme melancholy and bodily weakness left me and I became a strong and healthy man. I have no words to express my thankfulness to God for the benefits I have received through Christian Science; also my gratitude to Mrs. Eddy, who gave us the truth, and to all who helped me to "put off the old man with his deeds."

Dirk A. Bossen (Naval Officer), Amsterdam, Holland.

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