Several years ago I was unable to urinate. The symptoms were so acute that I decided to go to the emergency room at the local hospital, where a temporary device was put in place to enable my body to function. It was removed after a couple of weeks, and later I was advised to see a specialist, who gave me a prescription for a medication that he said I would have to take for the rest of my life. I feared a recurrence of the problem, so I began to take the medication. 

This was unusual for me because I had always relied on Christian Science for healing. Still, I continued to take the medication. I wanted to stop taking it and tried to do so using human will, but it didn’t work. Several times I asked for treatment from a Christian Science practitioner to be free of the medication, but I always relapsed into the old routine. 

I stayed on the medication for about three years. Eventually, I realized that I couldn’t succeed by employing two opposing methods of treatment. Christian Science always begins with the spiritually scientific fact of our perfection as God’s offspring. Material medicine operates from the entirely different belief that life, substance, and intelligence are in matter, such as a material body.