It is now three years since I was lifted, through Christian Science, from bondage and sorrow to freedom and peace. For fifteen years I had battled with ill-health, showing itself first in a severe form of stomach trouble. Although everything, I think, known to materia medica and hygiene was tried, no relief came, but other complications and troubles arose, until surgery was deemed necessary and resorted to. This, like everything else, failed utterly to bring the health so long sought for.
At this time, to the burden of ill-health and physical suffering, was added a great sorrow—the loss of husband and home. In this dark hour when the suffering and burdens seemed greater than could be borne, opiates were given for relief. In a few months I found myself depending upon this means for a few hours' oblivion from pain. Then began a struggle against this bondage which continued for two years, growing always more hopeless, until the physician informed those with me it could not last much longer—possibly a couple of months. Surely "man's extremity is God's opportunity," for here Christian Science was brought to me. All medicine was thrown away, and at the end of three weeks I was eating everything and sleeping naturally—a perfectly well woman. In twelve hours all thought of, or desire for, any material relief was destroyed and a perfect willingness to let God heal me came.
Can I, for such a blessing, do less than give a life corrected to reflect the healing power of Truth and Love in the earnest effort so to express my gratitude to God for that precious book, Science and Health, which has shown us all how to find God? I have had struggles, battles, and glorious victories. Many times the promise has been fulfilled, "My grace is sufficient for thee." Endeavoring to follow step by step in the footsteps of our Mother, we must indeed learn a greater humility, deeper love, and broader charity.— Cincinnati, O.
