A friend has asked me to write my experience for the Journal and I am very glad to do so if it can be of benefit to any one seeking for health and happiness along the lines of Christian Science.
I was in "bondage to the flesh" for many years, suffering intensely from rheumatism. For seven years before I came to California I can scarcely recall a day when I was free from pain. I had been under the care of several physicians, among them two specialists, but I received only temporary relief; in fact, could see that I was gradually growing worse. My fear of being a cripple was very great, as I then had a strong belief in heredity, and thought I was going to be like an aunt who, for twelve years, had been confined to a wheel-chair with this same trouble. I had no hope of being well again, and thought there was nothing left for me but to be "resigned to the will of God," which at that time meant that I must be patient under the affliction which He sent upon me, and live and suffer my "appointed time."
About two years ago we came to California, hoping the climate would be beneficial, as that seemed to be my only hope. A friend in Ohio sent word to me that I did not need to go to California to be healed. I understood what she meant, as I knew her to be a Christian Scientist, but I was so prejudiced that I was unwilling to try it there. I thought, in my ignorance, that I would rather suffer than try that remedy, my only idea of it being that it might be good for imaginary troubles, and I then believed mine to be real.
