Last Saturday I was taken with a severe cold and sore throat. I decided to pray for myself; not as usual, ask my wife to do it for me. I was suffering from another illness at the time, and had been treated three weeks. I decided that it was for me to work out my own salvation. I seemed to make slow progress, but feeling that any gain was proof that God was with me, I kept declaring the truth.

Monday a bundle of Sentinels came. I had subscribed in the middle of the month, to commence May first. Although coughing incessantly, I asked my wife if I should read to her, as she was very busy. She looked up in astonishment, but said yes. At first it seemed impossible, but I kept declaring the truth. After reading several articles, I came to one headed, "Fear and Disease," and before I had finished it, I realized that the trouble had been met, the coughing ceased entirely. I also soon found that my other sickness had been healed.

While at Topeka, Kan., last winter, the fireman of the hotel called me into the wash-room one morning, and said to me, "I overheard you talking last night to that criple about Christian Science. Could it do anything for a man who was down very low in the drinking habit? I am working here for my board and whiskey; at one time, years ago, I had a fine position here in this city. I have spent money enough on drink to buy this hotel, have tried many times to stop, but have failed every time." "Are you ready," I asked, "to try Christian Science?" "Yes," he said, "anything. It seems to me there is a chance for me in it." I immediately went to my room, got some Journals and Sentinels, said to him, "If you are in earnest, I will help you to the best of my ability, so will my wife, who is with me." He said, "I will follow your directions implicitly." I said, "Here is some reading matter, read as much of it as your duties will allow." I went down to the boiler room several times, and found him diligently reading, once at midnight. The second morning, he came into the dining room, all cleaned up. The other guests, as well as we, noticed it, for he was not used to dining there. He was never seen clean and neat, but was withal an intelligent man. I could hardly wait to finish my breakfast, after he left the dining room. We met at the door; he reached out his hand and said, "I want to tell you first of all, I have given notice that I will not work here any longer for board and whiskey, for I am through with whiskey forever." I asked him how he knew. "I know," said he, "that I am cured forever. How am I ever to repay you?" "My dear friend," I replied, "I am more than repaid. The sight of you coming into that dining room was worth worlds to me." "Well," he said, "do not fear that I shall ever return to this habit. I have secured work at the Central National Bank, setting up a safe, at three dollars per day." I asked him to go to a Scientist if he found he needed any help. He promised, but never had need to go.

With one exception, when I have sent my testimony to the Journal, I have had a fear that I could not write on Science matters well enough to try it, but I am through with that fear forever, thanks to the dear ones who contribute so much to the uplifting of all who read their articles. I can and will more than ever before, distribute our reading matter, for have I not seen the evidence of its helpfulness? A commercial traveler for thirty-seven years, what opportunities I have to sow the seed, and how many present blessings I receive. Still I feel that I have very much to learn and overcome, but with God's help I will do it.

It is impossible for me to voice my thanks to our beloved Leader, and to the contributors to our periodicals, but I will do it by giving a cup of cold water in Christ's name, wherever opportunity offers.—S. Patrick, Chicago, Ill.

We were members and earnest workers in a Protestant church of our community for thirty years. For twenty-eight years I did not know what it was to be well. I suffered at various times from a complication of diseases, including nervousness, and chronic constipation, besides being of a "worrisome" disposition.

When Christian Science was first presented to me three and a half years ago I said, "I am perfectly willing to give it a fair trial providing it does not interfere with my church." I was told it would not, and after taking two weeks' treatment, I was entirely healed and have not tasted medicine since.

The spiritual enlightenment I received while under the care of the practitioner was so beautiful, that three members of my family and I at once began to study our Leader's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in connection with the Bible.

To-day I rejoice to say that we are members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Cincinnati, and also of the Mother Church in Boston, and we, too, can say as Mrs. Eddy says in her Message of 1902 (p. 5), "I never left the church, either in heart or in doctrine; I but began where the church left off."

All manner of diseases both functional and organic have been healed in the family through Christian Science. My mother, who is in her eighty-fourth year and unable to read the English language, finds Der Christian Science Herold a great comfort, and one day while left alone reading the Herold, she was healed of rheumatism in her foot.

We thank God continually for the faint ray of light which has dawned upon our consciousness, enabling us to assert our true birthright as children of God. We also thank the dear one through whom my healing was accomplished.

Our unceasing gratitude goes out to our Leader through whose life and writings we are led into greater light and wisdom.—Mrs. Elizabeth K. Rastert, Cincinnati, O.