During eight years, the doctors, one after another, had sentenced me to hopeless invalidism. There was a complication of organic and functional difficulties, which was finally pronounced incurable by a council of doctors.
As a result of this fruitless search for health, I had given up the use of medicine, except some simple home remedies, for about a year before the blessing of Christian Science came; and thus it seemed to me like an angel from Heaven, for it found me indeed helpless and useless.
Early in the Spring of 1890, a friend told me she had been healed through Christian Science. She did not say how it was done or what it was, but I knew if it had helped her there was hope for me. In spite of many seeming obstacles, and also the doubts and opposition of relatives, God opened the way for me and I went to Minneapolis, and one May morning found me at the friend's house. A few hours later I took my first treatment.
