My coming into Science was a sudden transformation...

My coming into Science was a sudden transformation from darkness to light; not but what I have had many obstacles to overcome, but, thank God, I have never really lost sight of that light. Many times the boulders have seemed so large as almost to obscure the way; but by applying the Truth as I have learned it in Science and Health, I have found the way brighter than before I came to the obstacle, for each obstruction helps to cast a shadow till removed by Truth. My life before coming into Science had been one of invalidism; my ailments were too numerous for me to mention here, but I will say that for the last five years I have been free from pain and misery, which I cannot say had been the case from my earliest recollection, up to the time that Truth dawned upon me. I had come to the point that I ceased to ask God to help me; and was reconciled to my fate. I was so that I could keep out of bed only by wearing a steel support, and taking a tonic daily. I had not read thirty pages in Science and Health (which, by the way, I had decided to read through as a novel), when I was released from the bondage of the tonic that I had taken for twenty-two years; and I have never needed it since that day. When that was accomplished I knew it was nothing but God who did the work, for I had tried repeatedly to stop its use, and two weeks was my limit, then I would have to go back to bed. From that day to this I have mowed down more claims than I have space here to tell, with the word of Truth which I have found to be all-powerful. My steel brace was laid aside in a very short time, which in the old belief I had to put on the minute I got out of bed. I had two of them, so that if one broke I would be ready with the other. I threw them both in the garbage can and all the medicine was emptied into the sewer. Now my medicine closet is filled with nothing but Love, which I am glad to give to every one and will accept nothing but Love from any one. I have no empty shelves for hate, malice, or revenge.—Mrs. Anna Markham, Chicago, III.