In the spring of 1932 it seemed to me that only suicide...

Anna Evréinoff

In the spring of 1932 it seemed to me that only suicide could relieve my mental suffering. I was so disgusted with life that I was afraid I might kill myself, stupidly causing much trouble for my near friends, who were not very happy, either. In fact, everything was ready for doing away with myself, and I awaited only the expiration of the period before my life insurance became effective, for the company in which my life was insured paid on a suicide case only if it were committed two years after the signing of the contract. At this time but a few months remained. I had no religion, and when I thought of God it was of an unknown God whom perhaps I might hope to find in the hereafter.

Just when I was preparing for death, an old friend of my husband, a woman whom he had not seen for more than twenty years, came to Paris and looked him up. He spoke with this woman about his marriage and the pitiable state of his wife. She told him about Christian Science, which she had studied for a long time, and she offered to see me. I consented unwillingly to receive her, but what she told me about this Science interested me. The next morning I went to the Christian Science church, and though everything in this church seemed very strange to me, and I grasped very little of what the Readers voiced, nevertheless I felt some relief. The following day I got the book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy from the library and started to read. As I never went to sleep before dawn, I had a great deal of time for reading. In two months I had read the book at least four times from cover to cover. I attended the services at the church, and I read the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly. One day, to my great astonishment, I found that the thought of death had left me. What a great joy that was! A short time after this, the insomnia disappeared. The liquor habit also left me. All this took place in six months. So the reading of the book healed me of all these difficulties. I can never be grateful enough to Mrs. Eddy, the author of that wonderful book!

In the years which have followed I have had much work to do in Science, for problems have come along, but they have always been solved in a most satisfactory way. I am very grateful to the practitioners for this. Through Science I solved a very difficult financial problem; I have been healed of the smoking habit—I had smoked for more than fifteen years. I have been healed of extreme nervousness, of a chronic cough, and many other difficulties.

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