BEFORE I became a convert to Christian Science, I was a member of the German Reformed Church for nineteen years; my husband was a religious man and we had one child taught from infancy to love and serve God. At this time I was, to mortal sense, rich, but my husband had business losses, and through anxiety he became sick and died.
In time I married again, and my second husband was not a God-fearing man. The trials that I passed through were severe. My husband was prostrated with a long sickness and was sent to the hospital. There he became so discouraged that he threatened to take his own life. He was finally discharged as incurable and came home. I prayed to God all one night, and in the morning sent for our minister to come and speak some words of comfort to my despondent husband, to see if it would not put some strength into him; but the minister was ill and could not come. So I went to God again and prayed, and then the thought came to me of the sick man who had had an infirmity thirty-eight years, and who cried out to Jesus that no man would help him; my heart grew lighter and I said, "Surely Christ will help him," and I prayed and waited.
The next day a health officer that I had known years before, passed through our yard, and told me of some people called Christian Scientists, and that while he did not understand it, he knew sick people got well from it, and if my husband would believe, he could get well. We sent for a lady practitioner, Mrs. S—; she came and took my husband's case.
