I would like to give my testimony of what Christian Science has done for me. In September, 1895, I underwent an operation for catarrh of the head, the physicians inserting a rubber tube two and three quarter inches long. The next morning after the operation the rubber tube could not be found, so they inserted another of the same size. I suffered so much afterwards that they frequently probed for the lost tube, but could not find it.
In the early part of December, 1899, my suffering for a day and a half was such that I thought I would go crazy. My son went for two physicians, but when they saw me they said they could do nothing for me. I told my son to telephone to Saginaw, Mich., a place near my home, and see if a Christian Scientist I had heard of, would come and treat me. She was just going to leave her home for the depot to take the night train for Chicago to attend her association which met the next day, and referred me to other Christian Scientists who would be able to take the case; but my son told her I desired her to take the case.
She said the best she could do was to give me absent treatment, that in a few minutes she would be aboard the train and would devote her time to the case at once, and requested that I write her in the morning my condition, sending it to her address in Chicago. Before my son returned from the telephone I was free from pain and dropped to sleep and did not wake up until morning. I sent a letter as directed, telling her how I was, but to continue the treatment. In two weeks and two days to my surprise the long-lost rubber tube made its appearance in my jaw preceded by large quantities of decayed matter. Truth had searched it out and brought it to the surface, after being there five years and three months, to the surprise of us all, even my physicians (who borrowed it to show, but I have never been able to get it since), and then I did not wonder I had suffered so much with my head, which is entirely well now and free from all pain, and has been ever since. I had not told the healer about the surgical operation and long-lost rubber tube, for I did not suppose that had anything to do with my trouble; but Truth as found in Christian Science is mighty, and I feel that I want to tell others how thankful I am for Christian Science and to dear Mrs. Eddy for what she has given to the whole world.
