When Christian Science was first mentioned to me, it found me in poor health, discontented, unhappy, and full of fear. It has brought me peace, comfort, joy, health, and so many other things that I find it impossible to say all I could wish on the subject.
I had always been a slave to drugs and tonics, and was full of fear for my family and myself. Like so many others, my progress in the understanding of Christian Science was slow. I was helped very much by the testimonies at the evening services, and went again and again, longing for light.
I was healed of a claim for which I had taken medicine almost daily for probably fifteen years, simply by reading Science and Health. I was afterwards healed of what seemed a very severe case of rheumatism. Other claims of sickness, such as scarlet fever, colds, and headaches, have been met successfully, but these do not seem nearly as important as the change that has come to me in my thoughts about life. I never knew what joy and happiness really were, until I learned in Christian Science. There is no earthly pleasure that can compare with the happiness that comes' through this Truth. I rejoice and give thanks daily that it has come to us, and long for a higher and better understanding of it, that I may bring out in my life daily the "fruits of the spirit."
