Christian Science was made known to me while on a visit to my people (who are Scientists) in Philadelphia. I had suffered for many years from what was considered an incurable malady, but after one treatment by a Philadelphia practitioner I was entirely healed. Every word of Truth I heard appealed to me, and I was very eager to know more of it. From a child I felt an intense longing for something better than was offered in the chapel we attended. I earnestly resented the eternal damnation theory, in fact, I left off attending any place of worship, simply because I could not reconcile this theory with my idea of a loving God. Christian Science was to my disturbed thought like water to a desert traveler. Since my return to England, two years ago, I have successfully overcome, in myself and little girl, the following ailments: scarlet fever, chicken-pox, whooping-cough, measles, piles, constipation, indigestion, influenza, and many other things.
I felt it very much at first, standing alone as I did, but am pleased to say that I have succeeded in interesting many others in this truth, so I am alone no longer, and when I felt that I must have the help of another Scientist, the thought has come, God fills all space, and so is as near to me as to any one, and so I have held on, and every victory has made the next conquest easier.
We have meetings held at home, but we are looking forward to having a room in which to hold our meetings. Our progress is slow, still it is sure, and we have learned not to look for results. When my little girl was recovering from measles she awoke one morning with earache, and simply screamed, the pain seemed so real. Her cry was, "Read to me! read to me!" I got Science and Health, and read the "Scientific Statement of Being" and the Lord's Prayer; in five minutes she was sleeping quietly, and when she awoke was quite well and ready for a meal.
