Seven years ago Christian Science found me in a serious mental and physical condition. My nervous system seemed to be completely upset, while I was also suffering from organic difficulties. For twenty years I had suffered from ailments which the physicians could not cure. About this time rheumatic trouble developed in a severe form. I then consulted a physician who was noted throughout the United States, and he said it had been brought on through the use of calomel. I was relieved of this ailment, but the other troubles were no better. I felt I already had all I could bear, when liver trouble in an aggravated form appeared, which lasted thirteen years. When one doctor had made trial of every remedy with which he was acquainted, we would try another, but always with the same result. In all, eleven physicians treated me, only four of whom are now living. Many thousands of dollars were thus spent, until one of the most celebrated physicians in the State said there was no cure for me. He said he would be honest with me, and all that could be done was to have regular injections of morphine, for unless I used it there was danger of collapse from" pain. Through the use of this drug and the pain a worse condition was brought on. The last four weeks that I was under the care of physicians I had five distressing attacks, and in spite of the powerful remedies administered my cries could be heard a block away.
Then Christian Science found me. At the earnest solicitation of my husband and friends I wrote to a practitioner, who gave me absent treatment, and one by one those dreams of pain and disease vanished. As I write this I think of the endless things I have to be grateful for in Science. It is almost overwhelming. I have great joy in the study of Science and Health, and the love and thankfulness I feel for Mrs. Eddy, and for her wonderful discovery, is beyond measure. I thank God that she was wise enough and good enough to be the Discoverer of this blessed light; that she has her rightful place, and that it cannot be touched or shaken by error.
McKensie, Tenn.
