Nine years ago I was under that terrible cloud of suffering and despondency, that only those know who have tried every remedy that their kind physicians can suggest, not only without relief, but without further expectation of receiving any, having lost faith in drugs as a healing agency. To my sense, God had not answered my prayers, for I had prayed daily for years, that my suffering might cease, without its ever occurring to me that the healing would come through other than material means. From being an ardent young Christian and church worker, I had come to the place where I seldom opened my Bible, as it contained nothing helpful to my clouded sense. One day a dear brother came to my room and in tones of conviction which I shall never forget, said, "Christian Science will heal you, and nothing else Will." I had been loath to try Christian Science, having classed it with quackery, but at those words I was seized with a desire to do so. I was opposed for a month in that desire by my husband, but at the end of that time I was in such suffering that he relented and I sent for a Scientist. Before she reached my house I was free from pain which I had had constantly for five years, having been weeks at a time in bed with it. That same day other troubles I had had since early childhood, left me, and in seven weeks' time, I was completely healed of all my claims; and whereas nearly every organ in my body had been in an abnormal condition, every one was now in perfect order.
My surprise and joy were great. The second day I got Science and Health, and from the first reading I believed every word, and it answered questions on every page which I had wondered about ever since I had learned to ponder spiritual things. I read and studied the Bible with absorbing interest, and felt from the first that this was the only way, and that I must walk in it. During these years that have followed we have had repeated evidences in our home of the power of Christian Science to extricate us from inharmonious conditions. My earnest prayers are for those who are in constant distress and trouble, and yet refuse to yield themselves to this great Truth where they could find relief. May we, who have this understanding of Truth in a measure, realize so faithfully the nothingness of this error that would try to hold them from harmony, that we may help to clear away this cloud and so be instruments of good in the Master's service.
Medford, Mass.
