As I stood looking up at the...

David Appleton Griggs

As I stood looking up at the lovely, fully ripe fruit on a large cherry tree, I yearned to pick the luscious fruit. For over five years I had been suffering from what a doctor had called dysentery. The symptoms were much aggravated if I climbed a ladder or stretched. I would then be confined to my bed for several days with severe pain. During five years of treatment by a doctor, there was no improvement in my condition. But I was still eager to pick the cherries.

Just then a Christian Science practitioner and her husband came walking by and stopped to admire the beautiful fruit. I explained my problem to them. She told me that God is all good and that everything that He has made is good; so it could not possibly harm me to pick the lovely fruit.

Immediately the logic of her statements dawned on my thought. So quickly I got the ladder and started picking the fruit. I picked over one hundred quarts of cherries, without the slightest discomfort. I was healed from the moment that the practitioner told me that I would not suffer from picking the cherries.

That was my first healing in Christian Science. Since then I have been blessed by Mother Church membership, rewarding activity in a branch church, and later, the beautiful unfoldment of class instruction. Christian Science has brought to my family and me much joy and happiness as well as many other wonderful healings, for which we are indeed very grateful.—David Appleton Griggs, Willimantic, Connecticut.

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