It is not necessary for me to tell my old friends and acquaintances how great has been my deliverance from sickness and suffering, but I always have to tell them that it was through Christian Science that I recovered my health.
I was miserable for ten years. Among my many ills I had one which all the physicians whom I consulted said was incurable. Through this trouble I was a great sufferer, being confined to my bed from a week to ten days at a time in great agony, feeling that I could not recover. After each attack, I looked like one who had passed through a long siege of fever or severe sickness, and it took me a long time to gain enough strength to care to take up life again. When I did, it was only to over-do and be thrown back into the power of this claim; and this was the way in which my life was spent.
I became very much discouraged, although my physician tried to give encouragement by assuring me that while the disease could not be cured, it would not cause death. He had given the case much thought and study, but at last, seeing how discouraged I was becoming, referred my case to an institution in New York where they made such troubles a specialty. The word came back that there was no cure for the disease, but that it would not cause death, although I might at times be in such agony as to feel that I was going to die.
