In January, 1911, I became ill with influenza, and according...

Samuel H. Miller

In January, 1911, I became ill with influenza, and according to medical diagnosis just escaped acute lung trouble. After apparent recovery I pursued my customary vocation until the following spring, but did not regain the flesh I had lost or my normal strength. I was then stricken with a nervous breakdown, suffering all the physical and mental distress which accompanies this condition, including sleeplessness, loss of appetite, and a derangement of every function of the body. All that will-power, the kindly doctor, medicine, loving friends, and change of scene could do to relieve me was done, but with only temporary relief. After remaining in the mountains for about four months and a half, I returned home somewhat improved, but soon relapsed into a condition fully as bad as before.

I realized that material means did not bring a permanent cure, and so, knowing that God as understood and revealed by Christian Science had healed those who had accepted it, and being advised and encouraged to try it by one who had experienced its healing power, I did so, after some hesitancy. I had been for a number of years a churchman, a student as well as a teacher of the Bible, loving its teachings and meeting with some success. God, however, overruled my hesitancy and led me to a practitioner, who gladly responded to my needs. In seven days, to the joy of myself and family, I was able to attend to my duties with health and comfort.

Friends who did not understand Christian Science, adivsed me not to take up my past vocation, predicting that I would soon have to give it up; but the practitioner told me to take up any work that I desired to do, and to go back to the former position if it was still open to me. This I did, and during the busiest season. Nevertheless I steadily gained flesh, so that in a short time my weight exceeded that previous to my sickness.

Several years ago I was very fond of tobacco, but without any effort on my part to give up its use, the desire to indulge in it left me, and I did not again resort to it until in the sickness of 1911 the belief that smoking would be a comfort took a strong hold upon me. I smoked six to eight cigars a day, but when I received healing in Christian Science for the nervous breakdown, the desire for tobacco entirely disappeared and has never returned.

I am in excellent health, and friends say they never saw me looking so well. During the past few years we have had many proofs of the ever present help mentioned in the ninety-first psalm. Christian Science has brought relief for myself and family from all sickness and discord, blessing us with a deeper and fuller knowledge of God, for which I most heartily thank Him and His Christ. I am deeply grateful for the pure and loving thought that inspired Mrs. Eddy to give to the world the wonderful and practical book, "Science and health with Key to the Scriptures," which has enabled so many to find the truth that makes free. I am also thankful for the Christian Science literature, which is a daily help, furnishing that spiritual food which we are ever seeking.

Samuel H. Miller, Hyde Park, N. Y.

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