It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I acknowledge the healing and regenerating power of Truth, to which I owe all that I have and all that I am. Before coming to Christian Science, I was continually under a doctor's care, always taking medicine, yet hardly knowing a day free from pain. I could not understand or believe in God and very bitterly criticised religion as it had been taught me and as I had seen it lived. I was in the bondage of a great darkness, was unhappy, irritable, and selfish. Having no home and being entirely dependent upon my own resources for support. I found existence a desperate battle, and felt that life was not worth living. Hoping to get relief from some of my suffering, I went through an operation, spent six weeks in a hospital and several months in the country, only to be told that I was as well as I ever would be. Thoroughly disheartened I resumed my work, only to fall a victim to nervous prostration and another forced rest, and to be told by my physician that I was suffering from an incurable heart trouble, that all I could hope for was temporary relief from the use of tonics and stimulants, and that death might come at any time. I had always been a sufferer from an inherited stomach trouble and had gotten where I could eat nothing that did not distress me. I was wearing glasses, without which I could do no work or reading. From a child I had been subject to terrible sick headaches which were growing more frequent and more severe.
Becoming thoroughly discouraged in my fruitless search for health under materia medica, I turned to Christian Science for help and was perfectly healed. I can now eat what I please, have no need of glasses, am unconscious of the existence of a heart. A tumor in the left breast, which was so painful at times that I found it difficult to operate my typewriter, and which had been sentenced to removal by a surgeon's knife, has entirely disappeared, while the mental gloom and darkness have given place to the light of ever-present Love.
In gaining the right idea of God and man, as taught in Science and Health, and in realizing the omnipresence of good,—the leading and directing of infinite intelligence, the care and protection of divine Love,—I find that the old sorrows, heartaches, disappointments, discouragements have disappeared, while peace and contentment have taken their place.
