When Christian Science came into our home it found me...

When Christian Science came into our home it found me a helpless invalid, in bondage to sciatic neuritis, unable to wait upon myself. I had been growing into this condition for more than a year, having tried everything that we knew of in a material way that was suggested and recommended. When medicine failed to help me we tried osteopathy, then a change of climate, but only to find myself steadily growing worse, until I thought there was no help; and rather than continue to suffer and grow worse and remain in that helpless condition I longed for death. Two of my aunts had passed on after living for many years in a helpless condition, brought on in a similar way, and I believed this to be my fate.

There was a condition of the hip which one physician thought was caused from a severe experience at childbirth, and another thought was caused by a fall. The physician in the South, where I was taken for a change of climate, had a brace made for me to wear to help hold the hip bone in its proper place. He stated that of all similar cases he never had such a marked one. He has told me since my healing that at conventions of medical men he had attended he has often told of my case—as he had a complete record of it.

It was during a very severe attack, when I was unable to move hand or foot and was obliged to take nourishment through a tube, that I decided to try Christian Science. It had been presented before, but I was not interested and had no desire to try it. This was on a Wednesday. On Friday of the same week a Christian Science practitioner was called, who lovingly came to our house, and after a few minutes' conversation gave me a treatment. Words cannot express my joy at being instantly raised from a helpless condition to find myself suddenly well and strong again. Although at that time living a long distance from the street car line, the following day (Saturday) I walked the distance without help, took the car and went to the city, shopped at a number of stores, took the car to our street, and walked home, experiencing no fatigue or ill effects whatever. That was eleven years ago. Since then there has never been a return of even a suggestion of the former condition; and to-day I am a strong, healthy woman, do all my housework, and walk a great deal—sometimes a distance of five miles. Since this healing we have relied entirely upon Christian Science for all our physical needs, never resorting in any way to material methods.

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