When the subject of Christian Science was presented to me a little more than six years ago, it did not appeal to me because of its healing qualities, it came to me as "a beautiful teaching." My daughter was away from home at the time,a and when she commenced writing home about it, I told her it was prophesied that in the latter days there should be false teaching, and it should be clothed in a garment of light, insomuch that it would deceive, if possible, the very elect; and that she should be careful about what she read. However, after a few letters had passed between us on the subject, I was led to call upon a Christian Scientist and ask for the loan of her "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."

I sat down to read it, and such a thrill went through my whole being that I involuntarily closed the book and offered up a silent prayer that I might not be led into error, and these words came to me, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." This destroyed my sense of fear and I read for about an hour. Before I laid the book down, I knew it was true.

I had early learned to love my Bible. To me it was the Word of God and seemed to speak directly to me. It had become my guide-book, my comforter, to such an extent that it seemed impossible to open it and not find words just suited to my needs, and yet it never healed me of my diseases until I read it in the light of Christian Science. I can truthfully say that in the first three months' study of Christian Science literature, I gained a better understanding of the Scriptures than in all my previous study of them. I was not only healed of several chronic incurable hereditary diseases, but I was lifted up into a purer, more spiritual atmosphere, and gained such a sense of freedom from weakness, weariness, care, and anxiety as I had never before known. But better than all this is the joy that comes to one in being enabled to help others rise above their false beliefs of evil in all its deceptiveness, into a knowledge of infinite Good, Life, Truth, and Love.—MRS. E. A. HALES, Chicago, Ill.

The first time that I ever heard of Christian Science with sufficient explanation to realize in a small degree what it meant, I was on my way to see a specialist for my wife. I met an old friend who inquired whither I was going, and after being informed, requested me to wait a few minutes for him, as he wished to have a visit with me. We went to a hotel office near by, and after a short conversation on various subjects he spoke of Christian Science, and this being my first talk with any one upon the subject, I was interested and amused.

While I had practically outgrown the belief of the efficacy of medicine, I had no faith in what he claimed for Christian Science, and said to him that I had come for medicine for my wife and I would have to take her some or she would feel neglected. "All right," he replied, "so long as you believe in medicine, but if she does not get the help that she is looking for, come to me."

Upon parting he requested me to look into Christian Science. I assured him that I would be pleased to do so; and I further assured him that if he had anything better than I had, that I wanted it. I wanted the best that this world has, if I could find it; at the same time I was quite satisfied with my ideas of the future. I think I was a sort of an agnostic or something of the kind.

I did not care for what he had as it had the name of religion attached to it, and anything of that brand, was a very silly thing to my notion.

I saw the doctor, and after making the required analysis, he said my wife had Bright's disease. I asked him if he could cure her, he said he thought he could. I asked him what his charges would be, he said that the first two weeks' medicine would be four dollars, and then I was to come again for another analysis. I had so little faith in his medicine that I told him I would take two dollars' worth. He put up what he said would last about ten days, then I was to come again, for another analysis. I took the medicine home and my wife commenced according to directions.

After leaving the Scientist I heard a wee, small voice urging me to hear more of Science, then something would say, "Well, it's very strange that you should want to hear any more of that silly religion," but the next day I had an opportunity to have a visit with the Scientist, and this kept up for a week or more. He gave me some tracts, and I took them home and tried to read them, but they seemed dry and uninteresting. My wife had no use for them and would not even look at them.

During all this time my wife was taking the doctor's medicine, and for the first four or five days she thought it was helping her, but after that she seemed the same as before, and after seven or eight days she commenced to complain of very sever pain. Finally I said to her, "Why not try Christian Science? it can't hurt you if it doesn't do you any good," and in reply she said, "I am willing to try anything to get out of this misery."

I saw the Scientist and told him what the decision was. He informed me that before he would take the case than he wished me to buy a book called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and that the price of it was three dollars. Well, I thought that was putting it on pretty strong to charge such a price for a book. I did not feel as though I could afford it, so I hesitated for a day or two and then decided to buy it.

When he got the book for me, his instructions were to have my wife read at least two pages in it and one chapter in the Bible every day. I took the book home with his instructions, and arranged for her to go to the city to see the Scientist. She had two or three present treatments, the rest were absent. But as to the reading of the book, my wife had no use for it, but was willing to read the Bible. I cared nothing for the Bible, but was anxious to know what was in the new book, consequently we started in by changing works, she would let me read the book to her and I would let her read the Bible to me, as I was anxious to have her get well and also had a desire to know what the book taught. In this way we began, and at the expiration of about three weeks, her troubles all left her and the Scientist gave up her case as healed. That was four years ago, and she has never had a return of the disease.

Now as to myself. I was a worldly man in every sense of the word; used profane language, drank with moderation, had been badly afflicated with indigestion for sixteen or seventeen years and getting worse each year. I had not eaten pork for twelve years nor other flesh nor fowl for ten years. No matter how particular I was as to what I ate I would suffer from one to two hours after a meal. I had given up riding my bicycle a year before on account of a belief of heart trouble. I was also troubled with catarrh and bronchitis. At the expiration of three or four weeks of this daily reading, one noon after dinner my wife remarked that she noticed that I did not suffer with gas as I always had before. I thought for a moment and realized that what she said was true. Then the thought came. Maybe I am healed. After that I ate things which formerly had been out of the question, with no bad results. Then I knew that I certainly was healed, and ever since have eaten anything and everything that others eat, and all that I cared to at any time of day or night as circumstances might demand.

The habit of using profane language left me in about the same manner and about the same time that my indigestion left me; it simply went, and I did not know how or when. It returned to its native nothingness, the same as all my other bad habits and physical beliefs. I could write a book on what Christian Science has done for my wife and me and what it has enabled us to do for others, and then not half the story would be told. Words cannot express my gratitude to those who have helped to make it possible for me to have this grand truth. It is my prayer that I may live the life that will be an honor to the Cause and the Founder of it.—C. G. READ, Eden Center, N. Y.