I was led to seek help in Christian Science through the illness of my mother, who lay about three months helpless with rheumatic fever. Her case was considered hopeless by two schools of medicine, Allopathic and Homœopathic. The physicians said she was too old to recover; a younger person might possibly, but it could not be expected of a woman of eighty-six.
In desperation I turned to Christian Science. I knew it had a practical religion and healed the sick, for I had once met Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and had been impressed by the truth of her utterances. Yes, over twenty-five years ago, I had that inspiration.
When her book, Science and Health, first came out, I purchased one. I read it some, and understood it a little. I took it with me to the Pacific coast, but before I had gleaned much, the book was lost or stolen. However, some of its truths stood by me in need, and helped me in training the daughter that came' to me some years later.
