For over twenty years Christian Science has been my...

Adèle Droz

For over twenty years Christian Science has been my only physician and comforter. It would be impossible to tell of all that it has done for me; it is enough to say that I owe everything to it—health, joy, peace, and happiness.

Some years before I knew of Christian Science, when I was going through a hard experience, I cried out to God and opened my Bible. My eyes rested on this verse in Psalms: "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye." Immediately I felt a profound peace; and more than once that promise helped me to overcome discouragement. Soon after this I fell sick, and not knowing of Christian Science, I had to undergo a serious operation which did not restore me to health. But in spite of the testimony of the physical senses, I felt sure that I should recover; that promise never left me.

I grew more and more feeble and had to give up all work. It was then that "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy was offered to me by a friend who had bought it although she did not know a word of English, and at that time had no knowledge of Christian Science. I shall never forget the joy I experienced in reading this book. It was what I had sought during many years. I could not read more than a few sentences at a time, because of severe pains in my head. But gradually, without my noticing it, the book became my constant companion, and I completely forgot my body. One day I noticed that I was eating all kinds of food without feeling the least discomfort, that my suffering had disappeared, and that my strength had come back. I was healed. A relative who seemed unable to understand the unreality of evil said to me, "It is not so much the physical healing which has struck me, but the moral transformation which has taken place in you has opened my eyes."

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