When I turned to Christian Science some years ago, for the healing of my husband, I little dreamed of all that was to come to me personally through this seeking. I only wanted my husband to be well, and when I realized that physicians could not heal him permanently,—that during all the many years in which he had taken medicines for various physical troubles he was not in any wise benefited, I waked up to see that it was only a loss of time to longer depend on drugs for healing. I had heard of this new way of healing without drugs, and I recalled cases that had been cured by it, one being the remarkable healing of a lady whom I knew. When I urged my husband to try it he gave his consent to my seeing a practitioner for him, but without faith and with apparently no interest in the subject. He remarked, however, "I am looking for the truth, and if Christian Science can be proved to my reason to be true, I am willing to accept it." I sought a practitioner, and accepted her suggestion to read Science and Health to my husband. I promised to read it without prejudice, and without antagonizing statements which I could not understand. I lost no time in beginning the reading of the book to my husband, at first with no interest nor thought beyond that of helping him. Soon, however, its statements began to appeal to me, and I read with a deeper interest, and now for myself alone. The light began to break in upon my consciousness, like the radiance of a new day. When I had read for about three days I realized that I was changed,—old things had passed away, and behold! all things were become new. I inwardly knew that Christian Science is the truth and that my old religious beliefs were not true. Without an effort, or one regret on my part, all my once-cherished religious opinions immediately fell away from me. It seemed that I had suddenly waked up. after being mentally asleep all the years of my life before, and then followed such wonderful days of peace and joy, "times of refreshing...from the presence of the Lord!" I began at once with my husband to attend the services of the Christian Science church, and how happy I have been to go there ever since that first Sunday, years ago. Truth, as revealed in Science and Health, had touched my thought, in those three days of reading, and transformed the whole world for me. Although the way since then has been long, and sometimes has seemed rough, the joy and wonder and gratitude of that first awakening, through reading Science and Health, have never left me.
My husband was healed by Christian Science, and feels that he has found the truth for which he had so long been seeking. It has been such a blessing in my own life, that like thousands of others I can find no words in which to tell of my deep gratitude that I live in the age when this Science has been brought to the world by one who was good enough and selfless enough to show us the way from sense to Soul—our revered and beloved Leader. Mrs. Eddy.
Chicago, Ill.
