A year ago last March, Christian Science came to me and...

A. B. H.

A year ago last March, Christian Science came to me and I supposed that in common with that of other churches this was a beautiful religion, but the healing by the prayer of understanding I could not then grasp or believe. One day I was taken ill, and after much distress, said to my husband, "Isn't it too bad after all I've gone through and suffered by the physicians' advice, and the number that I've had (twenty-one in all). I still am not well, and not one day ahead can I ever feel safe to make a plan, my health is so uncertain. I shall have no more operations, but will do the best I can and try to endure the suffering with patience when it comes, but I believe I'll try Christian Science first. It cannot do me any harm if it's of God, and then I shall feel that I have done all in my power to be well and of some use in the world."

The next day I said to the Christian Science practitioner, "If you think you can help me, I wish you'd try." She did, and I was cured immediately. I have never had a return of the trouble, and have been able to walk miles. It was an ovarian trouble, and the physician's advice was that if one operation failed to cure, there must be a second: but I never had the second operation. It had taken me several years to get over the nervous shock of the first one, and the opinion was that I would in time be "comparatively well" only.

Last fall another old trouble which used to keep me down appeared in a severe attack. It was a serious rectal ailment of long standing. Eight years ago I had ten tumors removed, a few at a time. My husband finally said nothing more should be done. The last operation kept me in bed a month, suffering so intensely that it took months to recover strength.

Christian Science again came to my rescue with an immediate cure. The dear practitioner came on the noon train, and left me free from pain at six, to return home. It took a little time for the swelling to subside so I could stand or sit or even lie on my back, but in three days I was busy doing a little housework, and in ten days, besides doing housework, I walked two miles, not simply to see what could be done, but I felt like walking, and knew that street cars were available in case of need. There has been no return of that trouble nor of constipation.

I have studied my Bible as never before, in the new light which Science and Health has shed upon it, and have had many demonstrations for myself and other, and also on a sick animal, to prove that God's promises are safe and sure as in the time of Jesus. I am very thankful and grateful to those two kind practitioners who helped me to this new and beautiful understanding, and to Mrs. Eddy, through whom it has become possible, by her untiring devotion and loyalty. God indeed has been very good to me.

A. B. H., St. Albans, Vt.

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