In the sincere hope that my experience may encourage others to investigate Christian Science, I offer my testimony with deep and heartfelt gratitude.

After serving for some time in the First World War, I was invalided out of the services because of a physical condition which gave me little hope of ever again leading a normal, healthy life. Added to my dilemma was the loss of six members of my family through a condition which according to the medical faculty was incurable. The great fear that I too would be overtaken with the same malady was constantly with me, and as a result of this fear I was likewise stricken.

Although I received all the care possible from the physicians in charge of my case, they were able to relieve me only temporarily and informed those near to me that my condition was serious. Out of kindness I was not told the verdict at that time, yet I sensed the situation and earnestly prayed as best I knew that I might be spared for the sake of my wife and two small children.

Some years previous to the illness referred to, a cousin of mine, because of ill-health, had been obliged to retire on a reduced pension and had taken up residence at a coastal resort in the hope that he would regain his health or at least that the change would prolong his days. When I realized my hopeless position I asked my physicians if I might go to the coast. They agreed, provided that I was properly nursed and accompanied on the journey. And so, on invitation, I proceeded to my cousin's home, hoping that a miracle would occur and that I would be healed.

Upon arrival I was met by my cousin, whom I hardly recognized. He was beaming with joy and happiness and was an entirely different-looking person from the one I had known a few years before. I felt that if he could receive such benefit from his new environment, then perhaps I might too.

At his home I was surrounded with love, and he and his wife could not do enough in caring for my needs. The transformation in my cousin's health and in his life roused my curiosity, and I asked him what had brought it about. He told me that a friend he had known in the dark days of his ill-health had asked him to look into Christian Science, assuring him that it would help him. He said that he had done so and that his acceptance of its teaching had brought about his healing. My cousin said he was quite sure that if I accepted Christian Science I too would be healed. And so I agreed to accompany him and his wife to a Christian Science testimony meeting.

I shall always treasure my first impressions of that gathering. Everyone expressed joy and happiness, and the whole atmosphere was permeated with an indescribable peace. The testimonies of healing filled me with a deep sense of gratitude for God's great love for His children. I was so uplifted that I was instantaneously healed. That very evening I enjoyed a good meal, although I had not eaten normally for months. That healing occurred twenty years ago and has been permanent.

What I am most grateful for, however, are my better understanding of God and His creation as perfect and the knowledge that sin, sickness, and death are unreal. How infinitely joyous are the glad tidings that man is not subject to the so-called laws of heredity!

This testimony would not be complete without an expression of gratitude to the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, who through her consecration and spiritual-mindedness was ready to receive the divine revelation of Christian Science and give it to the world. For membership in The Mother Church and a branch church and for class instruction, I give grateful thanks.—Arthur R. Hasnip, Birmingham, England.