After nine years of investigation, critical analysis application and demonstration of Christian Science, I wish to humbly express my gratitude for its wonderful revelation of Truth. When my attention was first called to this subject by a friend who had received help, I attended some lectures, then bought a copy of the text-book and read it with what I supposed was understanding. Much of the teaching appealed to me as a sensible and beautiful explanation of life, but much more seemed inconsistent and impractical, if not an impossible theory. In small ways however, I tried to hold the right thought, and I met with some satisfactory results, but when greater difficulties presented themselves, I felt afraid, and doctors were consulted when it seemed necessary to mortal sense.
Thus a number of years passed by, till on one occasion a friend told of the help her husband had received for a most serious condition. This so impressed my husband that he declared he was going to try Christian Science treatment for a trouble which had followed him a number of years and which various specialists had not been able to more than temporarily relieve. He immediately sought a Christian Science practitioner, and speedily began to improve. This attracted the attention of my twelve-year-old daughter, who was under the physician's care for a swelling which he declared would take years to conquer, and she asked to have treatment. Consent was given, and thus the healing work was begun in our family. The healing in each case was so slow that many a night I have walked the room in agony of doubt as to whether I was doing right in thus experimenting. I would read the book aloud vehemently, and pray for an immediate manifestation of healing, that I might be sure of the proof. Discouragement at times seemed rampant, but under all and through all the feeling remained that I must be patient and persistent and give Christian Science a fair trial.
In the mean time my church seemed to satisfy my ideal of religion, and I was content to remain within its fold, as its service seemed to me at that time so much broader in many respects, than that of the Christian Science Church; but I critically read all the Christian Science literature and went over the Lesson-Sermons. Many questions which at first were not answered to my satisfaction, I found were answering themselves in my consciousness, as the dawn of Truth gradually advanced.
