I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the many...

William E. Jenkinson

I wish to express my sincere gratitude for the many healings and blessings which I have received from God through Christian Science.

Twenty years ago, while working in a western city. I was taken with such severe pains in the bowels that I fell unconscious. When I opened my eyes a number of people had gathered, and one man said, "He is dying." I then lapsed into a semiconscious state. When I opened my eyes the second time, I was helped into a doctor's office, and after a careful examination I was told that my only hope was an operation. I consented to this and was placed on a strict diet for one week. At the end of the week, I was examined again and was told it would be useless to operate, as the condition was too serious, and that there was no hope of my recovery. My wife and family were informed of my condition and were resigned to my fate.

As I lay in bed, after this so-called law of mortal mind had been passed upon me, my thought went back a few years to a time when I used to visit my sister, who was a Christian Science practitioner. Every time I went into her home she would hand me a book and tell me to read it. But I would have none of it. As I continued thinking, the Lord's Prayer came to me and I started praying. In a short while I was standing on my feet getting dressed. My wife came into my room and, thinking I was delirious, called the doctor. I told them I was going out to see a Christian Science practitioner. How I reached the city I do not know, but after a little time I found a practitioner. He listened to my story, then handed me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and said: "Go home and forget yourself in reading it. I will help you."

I took the book home and went into my room and started to read. This was on a Thursday at one o'clock in the afternoon. I read the book until four-thirty, then I got up, went to my wife, and told her I was ready to eat something. I sat down with the family to dinner and ate a hearty meal, the first one in ten days.

On Friday morning I arose, had breakfast, called the practitioner, and continued to read Science and Health for the greater part of the morning. On Saturday and Sunday I felt very well, but Sunday evening the pains began to return and were worse than in the beginning. All I could remember from my reading was, "God is Spirit, God is Love." I held on to those two facts as best I could. The pains were so severe I thought that I was going to pass on. Then suddenly a great change came over me and I was healed of gallstones. I arose Monday morning, went to work, and have been working steadily ever since, with no return of the error.

I then took up the study of Christian Science in earnest, and through the application of the truths contained therein I have received many healings. By one treatment from a practitioner I was healed instantaneously of a rupture of a very serious nature. About five years ago I felt striking my right side on the edge of the bath tub, fracturing three ribs, dislocating my right wrist, and receiving internal injuries. I called for help, and through the loving work of the practitioner in fifteen minutes my wrist was healed completely, and in three days all evidences of other injuries had disappeared. I am very grateful that I lost no time from my work on account of this injury. I was healed of ptomaine poisoning, and recently, when many around me were confined to the house for several days, I was beautifully healed of influenza in one night, and had to lose only one half day from my business. These healings were accomplished through the alert work of a practitioner.

We have received wonderful protection during these last five or six years. We have not lacked any good thing, and our supply has been abundant. In starting for my business in the morning I always make it a point to read the first two paragraphs of the Preface to Science and Health (p. vii). At this time I went to express gratitude for all the Christian Science literature, for the privilege of class instruction, and for membership in The Mother Church. My family and I owe endless gratitude to Mrs. Eddy for the great truth that she has given to the world.

William E. Jenkinson, Erie, Pennsylvania.

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