We were living in a small town in Ohio when I first heard something of Christian Science, and it was only a very short time afterward that I found a Scientist and asked for treatment for my many ills. I was almost immediately healed of stomach and head trouble with which I had suffered for a number of years.
It is now sixteen years since that experience, and during this time I have been benefited in unnumbered ways by this great truth. Christian Science came to me when I was much in need and I knew not where else to look for help, having given the physicians a thorough trial. I was a member of an orthodox church for many years and had read in the Bible how Jesus healed the sick; and when sick myself, I often wondered why the people of our day did not heal as he did. Upon asking some one about this, I was told that it was because Christians had lost their faith, which I thought true. When I first heard that there were people who professed to heal diseases through the power of God, I said, "That is just what I have been looking for all these years," and after I had been treated a few days there was such a spiritual blessing came to me that I felt as though I had passed from death unto life.
Christian Science came to me as eternal Life revealed. The truth was so clear to me that I began to demonstrate as soon as I found myself well, though I knew very little about the real meaning of Christian Science. Not having the advantages that some others had, I permitted the thought that I could not do much good to hinder me, thinking that others, better instructed than I, would do the work; but with the understanding of Truth, gained by a close study of our text-book, Science and Health, I have been able to accomplish much.
