Testimony of Healing September 22, 1917 Issue

Several years ago Christian Science was brought to my...

Blaine W. R. Krout

Several years ago Christian Science was brought to my attention by a very good friend, at a time when I was sorely in need of a change of thought. My trouble at that time was mental, and as I had been dwelling upon it constantly it had assumed mountainous proportions. This friend said he knew that Christian Science could help me, and at his earnest request I consented to visit a practitioner, although decidedly skeptical as to results. I however left the practitioner's home with an already changing thought, and immediately began the study of Science and Health, visited the reading room, and went to church. Later I got a Quarterly and studied the Lesson-Sermons. The unreality of my trouble was soon proven, for it disappeared entirely.

Through Christian Science I have gained complete victory over bowel difficulty and accompanying hemorhoids, with which I had been troubled since boyhood. Other minor ailments have entirely disappeared and been forgotten; but they were numerous. I am so thankful that I am today able to help myself when adverse conditions try to fasten themselves upon me; and, what is far more gratifying, it has been demonstrated that I can help others also. I find that my advancement in Science is proportionate to the use I make of the understanding already gained.

Until about a year ago I had been an inveterate smoker, but in June last my eyes were opened to the folly of continuing as a slave to tobacco. One morning as I came into the office and was about to have my customary smoke I decided that with God's help I never would smoke again; and I never have. The wonderful part about it (and this will be more fully appreciated by those who are or have been smokers) is that I never have had a desire for tobacco. Since I gave up the habit I feel much better, both physically and mentally.

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