It has long been my desire to express through the Journal the gratitude I feel toward Christian Science and to the Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. I had been afflicted with many troubles from about the age of thirteen or fourteen years among them being heart and liver trouble. I was treated by our family physician, but only received temporary relief. Many friends advised me to try different remedies that had helped them. I did so but found myself no better.
About three years after I was married, our little daughter, a beautiful little girl of eighteen months, passed away, and with that it seemed there was nothing left to live for; all seemed dark, my health was completely broken down. My husband thought it would be better for me to try a physician in a distant city, one we had been advised to try. I did so, only to return home more discouraged than ever as he added another trouble to those that were weighing me down; he said I would have to have an operation performed before I could possibly receive any help in any way. I Would not hear to that, so went back to our old family physician, as he could do as much to relieve me as any had ever done.
In our home were two large shelves filled with medicines of every description. Every month our doctor's bill and drug bill were paid regularly just the same as our grocery bill. This continued until about eight years ago, when a brother of my husband was miraculously healed through Christian Science. He came to our home a few months after he was healed and brought the good tidings. At first I did not want to trust to the treatment as I would have to give up medicines that I had not been without for so many years, but my husband, who by this time had taken up Science and Health and read in it, began to see the practical part of it, and thought it well for me to place myself under Christian Science treatment. I was willing to as my desire was for help. All medicines were put aside and I was treated. In about two weeks, I felt a great benefit. The pain was all gone and I felt freer than I had from childhood. From that time to this not one drop of medicine or any material remedies have been used in our home.
