I would like to give my experience in endeavoring to overcome various claims, hoping thereby to help others who are also trying to do their own work. When I came into Science I had several obstinate ailments of over fifteen years' standing, most of which medicine failed to help, and the others were only temporarily benefited. I was practically an invalid, and often suffered severely, and although able to go about most of the time, was unable to do much work or enjoy life as others did. When I found Science there was marked improvement in a short time, so that various friends noticed it, and inquired what I had been doing, etc. More than four years and a half have gone by,—and how great the contrast between my life as it is now, and as it was before I found this beautiful religion! I cannot begin to count the blessings it has brought. No longer an invalid, I go about and work with an activity and interest in life which I never knew during all those fifteen long, sad years, and all the shady places of my life have been brightened by the blessed sunlight of Truth. Not that I can yet claim, however, to have demonstrated perfect health and strength, for my ailments all had very strong roots, which had to be pulled up little by little.
Although my troubles, for the most part, have been comparatively slow to yield, there was one exception, and that was the first demonstration I ever had. I refer to the sudden healing of an obstinate disease of the eyes of five years' standing, for which I had been doctored by a first-class oculist for a year or so. He tried medicines of various kinds and electricity, also several different kinds of glasses, but all in vain. At the end of the year the oculist advised me to go to the sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., where, he said, they have all kinds of electricity, etc. This I thought utterly depressing.
It seemed to me that if I were a subject for a sanitarium, I must be in a sad way indeed, and everything looked the color of indigo. This state of things continued until Christian Science came in my way, when my eyes were healed at once, simply by reading the book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," although I had been unable to read any other book. Words cannot express my joy at being thus suddenly freed from so great a trial, and I was filled with gratitude toward our dear Mother for having given this precious volume to the world.
