I have long wanted to tell the world of my being healed through Christian Science. About seven years ago I was taken with a disease pronounced incurable by the doctors. I was given but a short time to live, the papers having given notice of my approaching death. The doctors could only give relief. I was urged by my mother to take Christian Science treatment. I was ready to take anything that would bring relief, and so concluded to do so. I was able to be about the house within a few days after the first treatment. I improved steadily and was soon able to resume my work. I did not understand at that time what had healed me or how it was accomplshed.
I attended church, a small gathering then, at Madison, Wis., to see if I could get a clearer view of this Truth. The understanding was very slow. The reason for this slow growth is clear to me now. If, when going to attend the services, I should chance to meet a person whom I knew (not a Scientist), I would walk past the church and when they were out of sight I would dodge into the church. I thought this all right because this Science was ridiculed on every side and I had spoken unkindly of it myself. All this came back to me in time to be accounted for, for "with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." I did not then wish to be classed as one of them, although willing to receive the benefits and blessings.
It was some time before I overcame this fear, but one day going to the reading rooms for a Sentinel I met a friend near the entrance and did not go in until he left. The thought came to me very forcibly that such actions are cowardly, and after working over the error I think I have no fear of being seen going to or coming from a Christian Science meeting. I soon became a member of the church and have improved in health until now I am healed. I had been a member of the Baptist church since childhood but had lost all faith in the Bible and church. To-day the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" take the place of all other books for me. I give little time to the reading of anything else.
