About eight months ago I became interested in Christian Science through a dear friend who had to some extent realized the power of God through Christian Science, to heal and uplift to a higher and better life in Christ. I was in great need of something better, for I had been an invalid for more than fifteen years, having submitted to two operations in less than three years, only to grow worse each time. The last one seemed to wreck my health entirely, for I became so nervous that I could not sleep at night, and as my husband was away from home most of the time, I had to have some one to stay with me, for I was afraid to stay alone. I had an eruption on my arm that had been treated by two different doctors without effect, and having no hope of help from them, had made up my mind to suffer on until my deliverer came. At this point the deliverer did come, and it was Christian Science. The humor on my arm was healed in less than three days. I have been healed of several other diseases. My ills are not all gone, but they are disappearing one by one, and I feel that I shall yet stand in the liberty where Christ makes free. I bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and it and my Bible are my daily companions. I use the lesson Quarterly, take the Journal and Sentinel, have all of Mrs. Eddy's writings. I am a colored woman, and have quite a battle to fight, but the battle is the Lord's. I have been a student of the Bible from childhood, but I never understood it in the light that I now see it, and I feel that the Bible interpreted as Science and Health interprets it, is Truth understood and not believed only.
There are a few of my friends who have accepted this Truth by being helped by it, and we, a little band of seven, meet at a private house every Sunday at eleven o'clock and study the lesson, and on Wednesday evenings we have our testimony meeting. We got our direction as to how to conduct our services from brother Scientists of this city, who manifest a great interest in our work.
Austin, Tex.
