It is with gratitude that I acknowledge the healing of ills and the unfoldment of spiritual ideas, which have resulted from the study of God and man as revealed in Christian Science.
Many years ago Christian Science was brought to my attention on different occasions, and though I rejected it I made a mental reservation that if the need became extreme I would investigate this religion and the promise it gave to those in distress, a promise which friends believed it fulfilled. As a girl, I had become ill, and tests showed a condition of incipient tuberculosis. I went to the semi-arid climate of the southwest, where I remained for several years. The physical condition was arrested, but eventually my health became impaired again. Since I was dependent upon my own resources for supply, my state of mind became one of despair.
In this time of extreme fear and hopelessness, I went to the west coast for two weeks' vacation. I had a feeling that there was nothing more I could do to better my situation, and as I sat in the hotel each day, mantled in self-pity, the clerk became aware of my need, and finally said to me, "Why don't you try Christian Science?" In a humility which had not been my past attitude, I said, "Do you think it would help me?" "I know it would," she replied. This kindly woman went with me to a Christian Science practitioner's office, and also lent me a copy of "Rudimental Divine Science," which was my first introduction to the writings of Mary Baker Eddy.
