For some twenty odd years I...

John Henry with contributions from Lillian E. Henry

For some twenty odd years I had known of Christian Science, but it took an extremity to bring me to my senses. I had had several healings, which I appreciated, but the pleasures of sense seemed more desirable than the joys of Soul. Finally I awoke to the fact that a social habit had bound me with what seemed to be unbreakable chains. Finally, in despair, and at the recommendation of my loving wife, a Christian Science practitioner was consulted. Progress seemed slow, but the patient insistence of the practitioner that the real man could not sin and that I was that man, had its effect. One day he said, "You are healed," and while I could not see victory, we both laughed at the thought of the evil that had been attaching itself to me.

A very short time after that I went home one night without the stimulant which had been my companion for many years. The healing was complete—there were none of the aftereffects which are claimed to accompany such abrupt cessation.

Later came the desire to join the church, and this brought about my release from a habit of thirty years' standing—cigarette smoking. Personal efforts from the standpoint of will power had failed, but when it was realized that of myself I could do nothing, humility and love won the day. Here, too, the cessation of the practice presented no evil effects. How could it, with divine Principle governing and guarding harmonious activity?

Then I went through the "valley of the shadow" because of a ruptured appendix. The application of the truth regarding man's coexistence with God, set forth in the Master's prayer, "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was," healed me without an operation, although one was understood to be imperative.

Great joy has been my portion; income recognized as the income of right ideas has been reflected in larger measure in human experience. Happiness has been shared, and in a comparatively short time have come the blessings of membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church, together with continual activity. And above all I am grateful for the immeasurable inspiration of class instruction.

Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 584), "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded." According to this measurement the good that has come into my life is not limited, but goes on forever.

I am grateful to God for Christian Science, given us by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. —John Henry, Lakewood, Ohio.

I wish to verify my husband's testimony and to add my gratitude to his for Christian Science. These healings were very wonderful to me. The first changed a life of much unhappiness into one of great happiness, giving me faith in the Bible statement that God "healeth all thy diseases;" and the last added much to that faith. For the loving patience of practitioners, for the happiness which church membership and class instruction have brought to me, also for all the healings which I myself have experienced through the years, I am sincerely grateful.

There are not words enough to express my appreciation of the Christ, Truth.—(Mrs.) Lillian E. Henry.

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