For seventeen years I sought for health and happiness through materia medica and the teachings of Christianity as it is preached from the pulpit, with the result that I found both getting farther and farther from my reach. When I had about come to the conclusion there was nothing left for me but to die, Christian Science was brought to my notice. Upon calling to see a friend I met a Christian Scientist to whom I related my weakened condition, adding, that I knew I had but a short time to live. She smiled and said she thought the same at one time, but she was healed through Christian Science. I asked what that was, as I had never heard of it. She talked with me for a while, and when I took my leave of her I felt that she was in possession of something that I knew nothing about. I asked her if I sent for her at any time if she would come to me. She said she would, gladly.
Two days after that I was again confined to my bed, and I sent for her. I had her treat me for a week. I felt I was healed, but I knew not what had healed me. The Scientist told me there would be a teacher in the city where I lived in a short time, and if I cared to study I could have a chance to go through a class with her. How anxiously I longed to know what had. brought the change in my life. From seeking and longing for death I had suddenly begun to want to live.
Before treatment I would lie awake night after night and watch for the dawn, without having any sleep; after I had been treated I slept all night, waking up refreshed, with the dawn of a new life in my consciousness.
