I am glad to tell what Christian Science has done for me in pointing the way out of deafness. In the year 1876 I went west to Prince Albert on the north Saskatchewan, N. W. T., Canada. My first winter there was too much for me and I became very deaf. I tried many cures within the means of a laboring man, but without relief, then I decided that nothing could cure me.
Some time early in 1897 I was in Winnipeg, out of work and walking around the streets, and I saw something new; it was the sign of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Free Reading Room. A friend answered my enquiries and said it was a new kind of religion that could do anything in the way of curing disease without drugs. Well, I thought I would have a joke on the Christian Scientists by offering them the chance to cure my deafness.
I visited the reading room and found a good lady in charge. I saw a Bible there, but I took a look at some of the other books and became interested in reading a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy. My defect was spoken of, and after a visit or two and having seen some, to me, startling statements in the book, Science and Health, I obtained a copy. I read it and began to understand its teachings. Acquired habits, such as whiskey and tobacco, were easily destroyed, but secular views kept cropping up and still keep me at work rooting them out. I did not seem situated for rapid growth. The seed of faith was planted in a stony, weedy soil, and is not a large tree yet, but it is growing with me, and I am getting rid of a great many false views.
