I wish to testify through the Sentinel to the healing power of Christian Science. About twenty years ago a friend suggested that I attend a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, and I went several times, always declaring on my way home that I would never go again, for I was very prejudiced against what I thought was Christian Science. However, the next week I always found myself preparing to go. I had gone several times when cystitis, to which I had been subject for twenty years, manifested itself. There was only one medicine that would help me, and I always carried the prescription for it in my purse to be in readiness when the trouble appeared. After the Wednesday evening meeting I stopped at the drugstore and had the prescription filled and took the medicine faithfully. For the first time in twenty years it failed to relieve me. Then I said, "I will try Christian Science to prove that it cannot heal me; then I can tell all my friends that it cannot heal." A practitioner treated me for one week and I was completely healed, and have never had a return of the ailment. I want to add that I was honest with the practitioner, and did not use a material application of any kind. After this healing I rejoiced to tell my friends the truth.

One rainy day my daughter slipped and fell on her elbow as she was returning to the office from lunch. Her employer insisted upon calling a physician, who said that if she did not have the bone set the arm would always be stiff. She refused to have the bone set and was taken home. We called a practitioner for help, and in one week she was back at the office, and the third week used the typewriter again. The arm was completely healed, and since then has never caused her any trouble.

We have had many healing in our home: of influenza, catarrh, rheumatism, which was healed in two months, and blood poisoning. I have gone through a fiery trial in sorrow, but all my trials have been met in Christian Science when I have been ready to give up the material for the spiritual Some healings have been quick and some slow. I am very grateful that the slow healings made me watch my thought more closely. I had to overcome a dislike for Mrs. Eddy, our beloved Leader. When one stops to think of her loving devotion and the untiring effort she made to reveal the truth to humanity, it is amazing to think one could ever misunderstand. I am striving daily to be more grateful and to love more. Christian Science means everything to me, and I often wonder in these trying times how people get along without this wonderful truth. I am more grateful than words can express, and I hope I may be able to help and be a comfort to others, as the sweet and faithful practitioners have been to me. I am grateful for membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, and for class instruction.

(Mrs.) Blanche Edna Thiers, St. Louis, Missouri.

I am happy to verify the preceding testimony.

Christian Science has been a marvelous sustaining influence in my life. I grew to young womanhood delicate, anemic, always tired, indifferent, critical, morose in disposition. Christian Science gradually brought about a change to better health; but not until I learned that we live to glorify God, which can be done mainly through a life of loving service to others, did my disposition become happy and contented. Most of my healings have been slow and have required much study.

I wish to relate one healing in particular. My son, then five years old, had been in bed almost a month with a skin disease which relatives, not Christian Scientists, named impetigo. It grew worse daily. At this time our pet dog, which seemed ill, had bitten my hand, and the two wounds had not bled. Fear over these conditions was intense, even though we were having the help of a practitioner. One night when I was alone, my thought became so confused that I felt as if I were about to lose my mind. I reread a paragraph in a Sentinel many times without grasping a word in it. In desperation I cried out to God: "Oh, Father, if I could make a request of Thee and know it would be granted, I would not ask for healing for this little child, for I know that he is whole if I could but see it, and I would not ask for healing for myself. I would ask for a larger understanding of Thee, to know Thee as Thou art and so find peace."

Instantly there descended on my thought such peace as passes understanding. All the fear and confusion vanished. I shall never forget the joy that was mine as I realized my Father was present and had answered my prayer. Turning back to the Sentinel, I read it through, understanding every word. This peace stayed with me during the remainder of the child's illness, although it was several days before the sense evidence changed, and it was a month before he went back to kindergarten.

A few of the healings in our family have been those of influenza, sinus infection, colds, stomach trouble, resentment, children's ailments, and a crushed finger. We have been abundantly cared for during the four years that my husband had no steady work. I cannot enumerate all the blessings Christian Science has brought to me. I am grateful for the help received from practitioners and for class instruction, and especially for the banquet of love furnished through yearly Association meetings, and by the periodicals.—(Mrs.) Nathalie Thiers Yehling, St. Louis, Missouri.