Christian Science was first brought to my notice when I was in the practice of medical electricity, attending an elderly lady whose daughter was under the care of a celebrated surgeon, and suffering from a severe and aggravated condition of sore nipples after child-birth. Proud flesh had set in, and all the remedies known to materia medica were tried and found wanting. I, too, had searched among my friends of the profession for a "balm," if indeed one could be found, but alas! with no better result.

This lady in some way heard of Christian Science, discharged her medical attendant, and sent for a Scientist, and in one or two treatments the cure was effected. I was told of this, and was very much surprised to hear that some fake, as I then supposed, had succeeded where science, so-called, had failed.

I was too busy with my practice to stop to investigate this curious treatment that had wrought a wonder, "in a day and a night," but went on trying as best I could to alleviate the sufferings of poor humanity by drugs, potions, plasters, electricity, and numerous other therapeutics that man had devised for the cure of disease.

It was not long, however, before Truth again knocked at my door, and it was in this wise.

My little daughter, then about thirteen years of age, was feeling ill and weak, and came to me, requesting that she might have permission to leave school early that day if she were unable to remain there during the entire session.

I examined her, and found her temperature was excessive, being 103, which, with other symptoms, suggested a fever. I called in our family physician, who was a fever specialist, and he diagnosed her symptoms as those indicating either typhoid fever or tuberculosis, which he expected would develop in a few days. After much diagnosis, he came to the conclusion that she had typhoid fever.

While the physician was consulting with me, a visitor was announced, who proved to be the lady who had told me of the demonstration over sore nipples some four years previous, and who was now a Christian Science practitioner. I related to her what the doctor had said about my child's condition, and she asked me, "Are you going to let that child go through that long seige of typhoid fever, when Christian Science can heal her right away?"

I answered that I had placed the case in the hands of our doctor, and should not like to experiment with something I did not understand, forgetting that I had many times tried some new prescription on some one else's child.

This Scientist talked to me for a little while after the doctor had gone, much of which I had no ears to hear, but one sentence I have never forgotten, and it was this: "There is but one power, and that is God." All through that long seige of ten weeks these words were often present, and they seemed to speak to me more forcibly each time, until one day, when the physician said, "You may give a dose of digitalis for her heart's action." I tried to drop the medicine, but my hand shook so that again and again I dropped too much, and had to throw it away, and I emptied the remainder out, feeling that I could not give it while these words were sounding in my ears. And she never had a dose of it.

The child seemed to gain and relapse many times during these weeks, and several times my friend the Scientist called to see what she could do for me, and kindly offered to give me a chance to go out while she sat by the patient, acting as nurse. She talked and read to her charge, and realized the Truth of Being for herself, thereby shutting all thought of the error out of her own consciousness, and each visit would seem to be attended with benefit, as the child would be easier. However, I was not yet ready to relinquish all into the hands of Omnipotent Love, our "ever-present help in trouble," much as I desired to see my dear child healed.

In time the crisis came, and only those who know what the claims are that materia medica has made for one whose temperature was 1061/2, and whose whole system seemed collapsed, and all hope of saving her given up by the physician, can appreciate the marvelous healing that was effected by Christian Science treatment. In five hours after the Scientist had treated the case, her temperature was normal, and she exclaimed, "Mamma, I feel better now than I have felt since I became ill."

The next day the child sat up and ate a broiled lamb chop, a sweet potato, and some lettuce, and drank a cup of coffee. She was out of bed the second day, and has never felt the slightest reaction from following the directions of the Scientist, viz.: to rise when she wanted to, to eat when and what she liked, and to praise God for His mercies and benefits to her.

The physician came next day, as a friend, for he was very much exercised over the case for my sake, and declared that it was a remarkable one, that he had been puzzled over it, doubting very much as to whether it was typhoid fever or tuberculosis that the child had had.

He was astonished and horrified when he found her up and looking well the next day after having given up all hope of her recovery, and even doubted the evidence of his eyes as he saw her so changed, and expressing so much life and health. He began to shake his head, and prophesied all kinds of terrible conditions and relapses, ending with sure death. But Truth is mighty and did prevail, as it always does, and through this demonstration of Christian Science healing we have all come to the understanding of Love as our great Physician, who heals and makes every whit whole.

It was not a hard thing to give up a profession that I had been many times forced to admit was little else than failure in the aggregate, though occasionally alleviative during a short period. I know there are conscientious men and women in the medical profession who are thoroughly disgusted with their so-called science—materia medica—who, when the claims of disease beset them or their families, turn away from their own systems to try anything that seems to offer the slightest chance of escape from suffering. We know that in Christian Science our Principle is "the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, " and that when there seems to have been a failure in the treatment of a case, it is only the failure on the part of either patient or practitioner. Ofttimes in reading the press notices under the caption, "Failure of Christian Science, " I have wondered why they do not render the same verdict to materia medica on account of the failure of their prescriptions to heal their patients. If we are to judge Christian Science by the failure some people have made of it, by the same line of reasoning may we not judge and condemn mathematics because some one has failed to apply the Principle, and cannot get a correct answer to his problem?

Paul says: "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good." This is what hundreds and thousands of men and women are doing to-day all over the known world, and they are "setting to their seal that God is true, " and that Christian Science is a religion, the therapeutics of which heal from sin, disease, and death. In grateful love for what our Mother in Israel has done for us in giving us Science and Health,—the Key which unlocks the door whereby we enter the Shechinah where the Word is revealed. "who healeth all thy diseases," I send this testimony to Christian Science Mind healing.