Testimony of Healing February 17, 1968 Issue

For me Christian Science is the only true, absolutely invincible...

Thomas Henry Smith with contributions from Stephen W. Boynton

For me Christian Science is the only true, absolutely invincible way of reformation and of salvation from a life of crime. For others to really appreciate what Christian Science did for me, it is necessary for me to recite some of my background and what methods were used to try to change me.

I was judged an unsalvageable juvenile delinquent by a superior court judge in a county courthouse in the spring of 1920. I was fifteen years of age. I was sentenced to five years in the state reformatory. I was returned there twice more before going to Sing Sing Prison for fifteen years. For a period of years I was in different state and federal prisons. I was revengeful toward man's law.

When Christian Science came to me, I was in an isolation cell in Sing Sing, having been returned because I had escaped. Someone tossed a newspaper clipping into my cell. It turned out to be the metaphysical article from The Home Forum page of The Christian Science Monitor. I read it over and over many times. It was meant for me.

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