Over two years ago I turned to Christian Science because everything else had failed to help me. I was suffering from throat and lung trouble. I had lost my voice for five months; could not speak above a whisper, and was not allowed to see any one outside of the family. At this time our family doctor was visiting me several times a day. He urged me to sell out my business. I then thought best for my wife to have a private interview with the doctor to see what he meant by insisting that I sell out my business, and on so doing she was told that there was nothing more in the world he could do for me. No man wants to be told that he is going to die, and at this juncture my wife said we must go to Montreal to see a specialist as I could get no help here. After consulting one, he said he could do nothing for me, but advised me to go to another. After an examination this one told me he had no medicine that would cure me; but if I could go to Saint Agathe and live in the fresh air on the mountains about six months, it would help me. He said he could almost guarantee that it would cure me, but if I did not go at once I would not live two months, as I had a very severe case. I think he did not consider me strong enough to stand it. I returned to Farnham more hopeless than I went away, and when my wife told our family doctor, he said I could not stand the cold winds. I was then advised by a friend to go to Bermuda, but our doctor said his experience led him to know that if I went I would be brought back in a coffin, but to go to Atlantic City, as being nearer home if the worst should come.
Just then a friend approached us on the subject of Christian Science (this being the first time I had heard of it), and had he not been a man I respected very highly, and a staunch member of my own church, I would not have turned to it, but his kind words persuaded me to try it. He told me his wife had been healed through it twelve years previous. I went to Ottawa for treatment. I arrived there a physical wreck, sick and discouraged, but I left it a new man. I was healed. I got my voice in a few days, and after three weeks' treatment I was a well man. I have had perfect health ever since, and am often called upon, and able to do the work of two men in my business. I have neither had to lose my health nor my business, thanks to Christian Science. If I could but tell how much more than physical healing I received during that happy time! It was the best time of my life. I learned how to study the Bible Lessons, and I got an intelligent start in the studying of Christian Science which has meant much to me. Right here I want to thank Mrs. Eddy for providing Reading Rooms in connection with Christian Science work, for this meant so much to me. Shortly after my return home the good friends who had led me to Christian Science left their church (I left with them), and we met for the study of the Lesson-Sermon in their home every Sunday.
To-day we are a society with an attendance of from ten to fifteen. Judge Ewing lectured for us last September, and our hall was filled with earnest seekers for truth and for health, and they went away well instructed. We are steadily going on in the power of Truth and Love, honestly trying to meet our daily problems. Our family doctor said, after he saw me healed, "It is marvelous." I am trying to express the great debt of gratitude I owe Mrs. Eddy in my daily life, for I feel that I am a living witness to Christian Science.
