When Christian Science came to me several years ago...

When Christian Science came to me several years ago I was suffering from a very serious internal complaint, and a London specialist who had been attending me for many months finally pronounced an operation to be my only hope, although that might leave me a semi-invalid for a long time, and probably for the rest of my life. I had been very delicate from childhood, suffering from sleeplessness, nervous debility, and almost constant sick headaches, and before my marriage I had spent several months in a nursing home, where I underwent very drastic treatment for internal abscesses. Some years after this, when my son was born, I was so desperately ill that for weeks my life was despaired of, and until I heard of Christian Science my experience was one of weariness and suffering. I had induced the specialist who had decreed an operation to postpone this for a week, in the hope that some way of escape might be found for me, as I felt I should continue to be a burden to my friends if I submitted to it. At this time my parents came to see me, bringing with them some Christian Science literature which an acquaintance, hearing of my illness, asked them to bring to me. As soon as I was able to do so I read these pamphlets and copies of the Sentinel and at once I realized that the healing others had experienced I could have and I began the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" together with the other works of Mary Baker Eddy. It is with the greatest joy that I testify to the complete cure of the internal disease through the study of Christian Science alone, and the dismal prophecies of many medical men have been entirely overthrown.

From my childhood I had wished that I had lived when Jesus was here, for he might have healed me, but I was soon to learn through Christian Science that the truth which he taught and by which he healed the sick and sorrowing is here to-day, available for all who are willing to put off their old false beliefs about God and man and in their place learn the truth which Jesus taught and which has again been given to the world in Christian Science.

After a few months' study of the textbook and the Bible, aided by the periodicals and pamphlets, I was able to take up my duties in the home, and I gradually gained strength and a degree of freedom and happiness such as I had never known before. My healing seemed slow but the attacks became less frequent and I was never again laid up with that trouble, whereas before I took up the study of Christian Science I had long spells of severe suffering and was under the care of doctors and with a trained nurse in attendance most of the time. In the meantime many physical ailments dropped away without conscious effort on my part, such as sleeplessness, a skin disease, and defective eyesight, for which I had worn eyeglasses for eight years, proving to me that the awakening to a truer knowledge of God and man heals the sick. The small understanding of Christian Science which I have gained has supported me through the greatest earthly sorrow, giving me a wonderful sense of God's love and care for His children and proving to me in innumerable ways that all good comes direct from God to man, and that by acknowledging and recognizing this fact and rejoicing in it the way opens for all the good God has bestowed on man. That my physical healing is complete was proved to me last summer, when I spent three weeks on a cycling tour with my son, during which time we never had to make use of a train.