Having received many benefits through Christian Science, I feel it my duty to write of my experience and some of the good derived therefrom.
About nine years ago a friend who had been under the care of physicians for several months, and was not benefited by them, decided to try Christian Science. He was healed in one week. It was a surprise to many, including myself, as I was very anxious about his recovery. This sudden change caused me to think somewhat of my past life, how I had gradually drifted away from the thought of God, not having attended a church service in fifteen years. After many little talks about what Christian Science could do and could not do, I decided to attend one of their meetings. It was a dark one to me., I did not catch anything, but seemed to be thrown into a state of darkness and doubt; I saw later on where the trouble was. Notwithstanding this I was prompted to go again and again, and finally decided to take treatment for a throat difficulty which had been a distress and annoyance for many years. I called upon a practitioner in Detroit, and was healed in a very short time. I always had a fear of taking cold, which disappeared in three or four treatments, also the desire for taking any material remedies. I can assure you that in my former days I never experienced such a change in thought.
My healer always pointed to God—Good—as the source of all that is worth living for or having. I soon purchased "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and in its reading, together with the Bible, I began to learn Life anew, especially after class instruction, which unfolded many things concerning God and man. I was taken very sick one evening while thinking of man as Son or Temple of God and then defiling that temple, filling it with all kinds of evil and wicked thoughts. I felt as though I were intoxicated. It was a severe lesson wherein I gained a view of man (as a mortal) when governed by evil.
