When I began reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," two years ago, I thought I was nearing insanity, that I would either lose my mind or die of a broken heart. I seemed to be surrounded by trouble. I had been a member of an Orthodox Church for twenty years and although I tried to serve God and earnestly prayed to Him for help and guidance, yet He seemed too far away to hear me. In this seeming state of desperation I took up Christian Science. Within a few days I seemed to enter a different sphere. I became acquainted with God. I found that He was very near to me, that I was not alone and friendless, that He did love me and had always loved me. What a blessed revelation it was to me! A ray of God's everlasting sunshine poured into a weary, heavy laden, sin-sick heart. It came to stay to dispel the claims of error—sorrow, sickness, and sin.
At that time I was wearing one pair of glasses all the time for the belief of astigmatism, and when I wished to read or sew I put on the second pair. In less than a month after I began reading Science and Health I laid off both pairs, and I know that I can see just as well as I ever did.
My daughter when but four years old was stricken with hip disease. Everything that money could do for her was done, and I feel like saying that every conceivable form of torture was put upon her. For ten months she lived in an iron brace, eight months she lay in bed with a weight on her limb. After these months of torture the attending physician said nothing but an operation would save her life, that it would be necessary to take out a portion of bone in the leg about six inches long. It seemed to me that she could live but a short time.
