WHEN I first heard of Christian Science, five and a half years ago, I had just been told by my physician that nothing but a serious operation, the removal of two organs, would be any benefit to me. I had undergone one operation, and felt that 1 would rather die than submit to another. I had been under treatment by physicians of every school, had tried electricity, spiritualism, etc., with no benefit. I was not willing to try Christian Science, as I felt that it would be like all the rest, but my husband insisted on my trying it. He knew nothing of it, but a salesman who came to his store told him that his wife had been healed by Christian Science of the same trouble, and he, my husband, insisted, saying it was either that or the hospital. So I began treatment without the faintest hope that I should be helped at all. During the second week's treatment the trouble which the physician who had treated me for three years said could never be healed without an operation, disappeared. When I saw that go I was encouraged. I had to take treatment about four months before I was healed. During that time, inherited asthma, ovarian inflammation, chronic constipation, and many smaller ills disappeared.
It would seem that any one would have been ready to accept Christian Science entirely after that, but I was not. I thought I did not want any religion. I had received the physical help and I felt just the same as I should if a physician had helped me. I had good health for about a year and a half, and then I had to come to Science again, but this time I was not helped so quickly. It was not until I awoke to the Truth and realized that I must work out my own salvation that I was healed. Then I worked and have tried to be faithful ever since. I thought I did not need God, and had often told myself and others that I did not think there was any. I had not attended church or opened a Bible or read a religious book for twelve years. But as the Truth began to unfold to me through the study of the Bible and Science and Health, I began to see how serious had been my mistake. I cannot express in words the gratitude that I feel for the moral and spiritual healing that has come to me through this study. It is immeasurably greater than the physical healing. How true are the words in the book of Isaiah, "I am found of them that sought me not." My husband, formerly an unbeliever, has now accepted Christian Science, we have taken class instruction, and are members of the church here and of the Mother Church. We are striving to show by our acts that we appreciate the great good that has come into our lives. My husband has been healed of dyspepsia, rheumatism, a weakness caused by a strain, for which he had to wear a belt, and many other smaller troubles.
Christian Science has also been very helpful to us in business. I feel that I cannot close this testimony without a word of gratitude and love to her who has revealed this Truth to me.— Brockton, Mass.
