In the hope that it may help others, I want to tell how much Christian Science has done for me. I heard of it casually, but its professed healing power seemed to contain the El Dorado of all my hopes, for I had always been considered very delicate and was always on the lookout for some new drug or patent medicine which was to cure me.
I went to the meetings. The testimonies seemed wonderful and interested me much, but for me the help seemed unattainable, because a lack of means prevented me from buying Science and Health, at the time. However, a friend just leaving to visit the United States, seeing my great desire to possess this book, promised, if he came across one, he would send it to me. He kept his promise, and some weeks after, the book arrived. I eagerly read it, and though there was much I could not understand, I never doubted. After weeks of study my prayer for understanding was answered, and the Truth dawned. So great was the joy it revealed that I could not bear to have the book out of my hand. Then came the test—the fear of a repetition of weeks of suffering.
An operation had made me such a slave to medicine that there was scarcely a day that I missed taking some; but my new-found knowledge of the reality of omnipotent Love took away all fear. I gave up all medicine and was healed. For more than two years now I have not used any materiel means. Sick headaches, which made my life almost a burden, have disappeared, so that I hardly know what a headache is. Eyeglasses, which had become a necessity, are laid aside, not needed now. There are yet claims remaining which seem slow in yielding, but I know they will be banished by the realization that God is All-in-all. Words fail to express the rest and peace that has come into my life by a realization of "The government shall be upon his shoulder."
