All my life I had suffered with nervous headaches, and for five years I had a stomach trouble, and was never well. Most of the time I suffered intense pain, and every organ in my body seemed deranged in some way. I could neither eat nor sleep, life had become a burden, and at times I almost wished I might die, for I felt that unless I could get help I must become a burden to myself and to all around me. In all these weary years, nothing was neglected that the love and tender solicitude of my family and friends, or the care of nurses, and skilful physicians, could do for me, but I grew worse and worse.
After all material means had failed to bring relief, friends suggested Christian Science, but I was prejudiced against it, and at first stoutly resisted every effort made for me to try it. I had, however, suffered so much and so long, that at last I was ready to do anything, to give up everything if I could receive any benefit. Tn June, 1898, I went to Portland and consulted a practitioner, with all hope of material aid gone. I was ready to say not my way, but God's way; and when the dear woman came to me, health was not long in coming. After only five weeks' treatment I came home a new woman. I could eat that which for twenty years I had not dared to taste, could sleep like an infant; in fact, I was well from that time on, and have never received any material treatment for myself or family.
We would like to express our gratitude to the dear one who so lovingly led us into the light of divine Love, also for the revelation through our Leader of the Science of Christianity, which is helping us to understand, day by day, that God is All in all. We would also like others to know the many blessings we have received through Christian Science, and the great joy and thankfulness it has brought to us. Better than all else, it has taught us that divine Love is sufficient for all human needs. Christian Science helps us out of all the difficulties which come into our lives. It is at all times a comfort, and a source of strength to us.
