As I hear the testimonies at the Christian Science...

Adelbert H. Burnes

As I hear the testimonies at the Christian Science Wednesday evening meetings, and read those in the Christian Science periodicals, expressing gratitude for the wonderful proofs of the healing power of Christ, I feel it my duty, as well as a privilege, to give through the Sentinel my testimony of healing, and to tell how I became interested in Christian Science.

I was living on a farm, where I had decided to remodel our barn by removing the roof and adding thirty feet to its length. It was while sawing the timber for the barn, in the spring of 1910, that I was forced to stop work. Up to this time I had been under medical treatment nearly all my life, and for two years my principal food consisted of oatmeal three times a day. I was very much discouraged, as I was told by my physician that it would be a long time before I should be able to work again. My sister, who was visiting me at that time, told of the help she had received in Christian Science, and asked me to try it before she returned to her home in Colorado.

I am very grateful for my first light in Christian Science, which was an instantaneous healing, in one treatment, of the tobacco habit through the faithful understanding of a practitioner. I did not care to discontinue the smoking, for to me it had been a pleasure for some time; nevertheless, it was the first error to disappear from my consciousness, and it never again returned. As I knew very little about Christian Science, I asked the practitioner when I should see her again, and she informed me that we would have no set time but that she would continue the treatments, and God would give us the rewards.

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was purchased, and instead of taking medicine every hour I read nearly constantly. In two weeks I was able, with the help of my farm man, to remove the roof and siding from the old barn and get it ready for the carpenters to go on with the rest of the work. I was also able to eat anything I wished, and went about my daily work singing and praising God.

I am indeed very grateful to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who through prayerful thinking and reasoning was able to give to the world the "key" to this healing Christ. I am grateful to God; grateful to Christ Jesus, the Wayshower; grateful to the practitioners who have stood by me; grateful for membership in The Mother Church; grateful for the privilege of class instruction; and grateful for all the periodicals, which have given me a better understanding of my Father-Mother God.

Adelbert H. Burnes, St. Johns, Michigan.

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