EIGHT years ago I came into Christian Science through my healing from lung trouble and other ailments from which I had suffered for over ten years. My normal school training was taken under difficulties, and it seemed as if my first year of teaching would be my last. The second year, however, was scarcely half gone before my physician, one of the best in the city, told me to go home at once or I would be carried home in a box in less than two weeks. I remonstrated against this verdict, but he sorrowfully replied that he had done all he could for me; that medicine was useless.
After a year had passed I again returned to the city, feeling a little better, but a severe bronchial disease soon claimed me as its victim. I went to see my former physician, but found that he had passed away during my absence. After trying many I at last found one of whose skill every one seemed convinced: At first he helped me a little, but at the end of two years' constant doctoring he told me I could never get well. I went home, shortly after, seriously ill. In about a month I was back at my work, for I had no intention of dying, but I became more miserable than ever and resigned my position for a year. The year following my mother passed on. This was such a shock that I became rapidly worse, and at the end of the school year I found myself a physical wreck, medicine a failure, hope gone.
It was now that Christian Science came to my rescue, and in a manner unexpected. I had received an invitation from a friend in River Forest, and my sisters insisted upon my accepting it, thinking the change would do me good. On my arrival I found this friend to be a Christian Scientist. I was a little alarmed at first, but knowing nothing about it I offered no opposition. I began reading Science and Health the next morning, and in a few days took treatment. In less than two weeks I was completely healed. I had passed from death to life in every sense of the word. I had found the God for whom I had been searching, and the Bible was opened to my understanding. Can you wonder that I am a Christian Scientist?
