I feel that I have great reason to be thankful for the healing power of Truth, which has been my salvation from sin and sickness. Several years ago I felt convinced that Christian Science was the truth, but instead of standing firm, I listened to error, chose evil instead of good, and continued to drift along in a sense of pleasure and life apart from God, until through great suffering I was forced to turn to Christian Science again, after all material remedies and human aid had proved futile to liberate me from the bondage of sin and sickness. Only one who has suffered the self-imposed results of any sin wilfully pursued, with all its accompaniments of malice, hate, revenge, jealousy, and hypocrisy, can know the severity of their punishment; and now I can truly say that Christian Science can lift one out of sin, hold one out of sin, destroy that sense of sin, and give that peace which does indeed pass all understanding.
During the past winter, I experienced a severe attack of nervousness, and was forced to discontinue my work in the office and go home, where I fully expected, by placing myself under the care of my father, who is a physician, and with the respite from work, to be entirely relieved from this nervousness; but contrary to my expectations my condition became worse instead of better. In the mean time I lost my appetite completely, and the ability to find rest or repose in sleep either night or day, for, when sleep did come upon me, it was only for a few minutes, and I would awaken with such fear and nervousness that I was almost delirious. Finally I was afraid to go to sleep, afraid to wake up, in fact had a sense of fear all the time, so that I soon reached a condition where I seemed to have all but lost control of myself. I felt that I must have help quickly, and that nothing but Christian Science could free me from this suffering. I had a telephone message sent to a Christian Science practitioner, a friend, who lived in another state, requesting treatment. The beneficial effects of the first treatment were apparent almost simultaneously with the receiving of the telephone message, and within three or four days I was up and about the house doing as much work physically as I had ever been capable of doing, being on my feet day after day the whole day without experiencing the sense of fatigue I formerly experienced after such physical exertion. A little longer time was required to regain the ability to apply myself to mental work, but in about a month from the time' when I was physically and mentally prostrated I was able to return and resume my work in the office. My healing was all done absently. I wish I were able to express as I should like that sense of peace and joy and love which accompanies the healing in Science. I felt, indeed, that the everlasting arms of Love were beneath me, and felt as I never felt before that God is Love and God is All.
One of the many things that I am grateful to Science for is my changed sense toward the Bible, which I used to regard almost in the light of ridicule, and always felt that the Bible would be the last book I would care to read; but I am very glad and thankful that that old sense has been destroyed. I feel very grateful to Mrs. Eddy for the revelation of this Truth through "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
