About eight years ago I was a very sick woman, having gone through a severe operation, deriving but little benefit therefrom, followed by four years of great suffering. At last the physician decided that another operation was necessary. Knowing the risk, also remembering what had been promised me from the first operation, that accomplished nothing. decided not to go through such an ordeal again.
Conditions seemed to grow worse. I had considerable trouble with my bowels,—a partial paralysis. It seemed as though there was nothing for me. Just at this stage a friend called upon me who was a Christian Scientist: her presence brought the thought of Christian Science and its healing to me. I had heard of it some nine months previous, but did not connect it in any sense with myself. I asked her about Christian Science, and she loaned me some Journals. They contained a number of testimonies of healing from reading Science and Health. I decided I must have the book. I purchased it December 8, 1898, and after reading it about six weeks I was healed and pronounced so by physicians.
Through losses financially, it was necessary for me to do my housework, and I found it no effort, when only a few months previous, some one always had to take care of me.
