I SHOULD like to acknowledge through the Journal, one of the many ways in which Christian Science has helped me.
From a child I had always been subject to severe neuralgic headaches, lasting for days at a time and obliging me to stay out of school a great deal. The pain in my eyes and head became something to be regularly expected and dreaded, and as I grew older the trouble increased.
I had repeatedly heard Christian Science ridiculed and often spoken of as something mysterious. The only thing I knew in favor of it was that a dear friend of mine and her parents had become interested in it, and the parents, both of whom were suffering from troubles which the doctors were unable to help (and the very best doctors had been consulted), had wholly recovered and declared they had been healed by Christian Science. These people being intelligent and sensible, I was not prepared to say that a doctrine they believed in was wholly unreasonable. However, I knew nothing of the Science, so could certainly have no faith in it. My friend had never discussed it with me and I was wholly ignorant of what it meant.
