On Christmas day, 1904, my physician told me it was no use to send for him any more, that he had done everything that medical science could suggest and that nothing seemed to do me any good. After he left me I wrote to an aunt in Ohio and asked her to have her Christian Science friends pray for me, and that as soon as I could travel I would come to her. I knew absolutely nothing of Science except that I had met for a few moments two women who were Christian Scientists, while at my aunt's house the June previous. I remember having said, after they left, "How strange that two such lovable women should believe in that." I knew nothing about Science, yet I was condemning it, and the strangest part of it all was the fact that as soon as my doctor gave me up I immediately wrote to my aunt to get these same women to pray for me. She complied with my request, and in just four days I took the trip from New York City to Columbus, O., stayed there six weeks under Christian Science treatment, and came home a well woman, sixteen pounds heavier, and feeling as though I had never been ill in my life. I had suffered with a severe throat trouble from childhood, and was healed of one of the most severe attacks I ever had in just forty eight hours, whereas under materia medica I would have had most painful treatment and been in my bed a week or ten days. The other illnesses of which I was healed were mental and nervous trouble of a severe form, also liver and kidney trouble which I had had for years.
To God and His Christ, and to our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, I am deeply grateful.
New York, N. Y.
