Article January 18, 1900 Issue

The Price of Science and Health

BY MRS. ELLA KLEINECKE

When I began to awake from my dream-sense of life, so filled with sorrow, sickness, and sin, I had a great desire to know something of Christian Science. I can honestly and cheerfully say, that the three dollars invested in my first copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" was the very best investment I ever made. The understanding of the teachings of that book has shown me the way out of malice, hatred, envy, and jealousy, into Love. It has lifted me out of sick headache. It has taken me entirely out of chronic rheumatism, the result of rheumatic fever. It has repeatedly enabled me to overcome neuralgia and toothache in a short time. It has overcome for my children, the croup, sore throat, mumps, eruptive fevers, and many other things. It has lifted me out of a great fear of God, that seemed to follow me all my life. What a glorious awakening it was to me, to know that God is Love, that He does not cause accidents of all sorts to come upon His children, that He does not strike them down with lightning.

Again, as to the price of books. My mother made me a present of a book some years ago that was called a "Family Physician." It was a medical work for which she paid fifteen dollars. It was a book about twice the size of the three-dollar edition of Science and Health, though inferior in quality of paper and style of binding. That book caused me the greatest sorrow and trouble that ever came to me. It contained one picture that was frightful to me. I looked at it repeatedly; I studied it over and over again and read the symptoms which were printed just under the picture, describing the disease that seemed so dreadful and powerful to me. I tried to fix it in my mind so firmly that I could readily detect this monster and call for a doctor at once. Finally this terrible mental picture was made manifest on my little daughter. I had ignorantly taught her to fear the disease as much as I did.

The doctor whom I called, a fine gentleman, kind and sympathetic, said he could do nothing for her. In a few hours my child faded away from me, like a beautiful flower. I could see when the doctor came in, he was just as much afraid of the disease as I was. I had only a slight understanding of Christian Science when I took that fifteen-dollar book which my mother gave me, and threw it into the furnace and burned it up.

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