I Was a great sufferer for twenty-five years and tried all kinds of doctors and medicines, but to no purpose. In 1887, a friend of mine told me that Christian Science would cure me. I had not even heard of it at that time but thought I would try it, and sent for a healer. She gave me a number of treatments, but it did me no good, and I told her so. She said some are healed by reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker G. Eddy. I bought a copy but I could not understand it, and put it away with no good feeling, for I thought if I believed that book I could not believe my Bible which I read every day.
I had been a member of the Baptist Church for fifty-two years, was a teacher in the Sabbath School, and when not teaching was in the Bible class, and thought I knew the Bible pretty well.
In 1894, I came to live in the house with a family that had been Baptists; the lady was now a firm believer in Christian Science but I did not know it. One day she came into my room and was surprised to see the book Science and Health on my table, and asked if I believed in it. I told her, no; and I asked her if she did. She said she believed every word of it, and told me of her own wonderful cure. I thought if she could be healed why not I. I took up the book again and, strange as it may seem, in less than one hour I got up and put a five dollar box of medicine in the stove, and have not taken any since.
