For some time, until about three years ago, I had been a constant sufferer from cramps in the bowels, frequent bilious attacks, and a sort of chest complaint, for which I went to the doctor for some months without any apparent help. Together with this state of things I became mentally very restless, hungering and thirsting for Truth; to know more of God and man's relation to Him. After much striving and searching, seeking hither and thither for peace, getting no better but worse, Christian Science was brought to my notice by a dear friend who was on a visit to America, and there had seen and experienced something of the beneficent influence of even a little understanding of the truth of our being, so wonderfully revealed in that little book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy. As I learned through its teachings that God is Life, Truth, and Love; and that man, created by God in His image and likeness, is governed in the harmony of Divine Science, for as the Scriptures saith, "in Him we live, and move, and have our being," I was gradually being freed from these ailments, until there is now not the slightest sense of them left.
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Because God is Life, Truth, and Love, He never made sick, sinful, and dying man, and if we will look for a moment at our Way-shower and example, Jesus, we shall find that his whole mission to mankind was to teach this truth, which he practically proved by healing the sick, reforming the sinner, and raising the dead: and taught his followers to do likewise, to overcome the world, the flesh, the devil—evil.
Knowing it was God that healed me, my earnest desire for truth was satisfied—rewarded. "Seek, and ye shall find," and then taking Job's advice (Job, 22:21): "Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee," which I did by reading the Bible and the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," above referred to.
