Christian Science was presented to me at a time of very great trouble and necessity. For two and a half years I had been under medical treatment for a very painful complaint which the doctors eventually decided was a serious spinal disease. Many remedies were tried, both at home and abroad, such as baths of various sorts, massage, blisters, electric cautery, etc., and of course lots of medicine. In consultation and for treatment, during the course of my wanderings in search of health, my case came under the notice of twenty-eight doctors, including some of the best physicians and surgeons in London. Although everything possible was done for me, and in spite of the very greatest kindness and attention from all concerned, I was worse after thirty months of materia medica than at the beginning. When I decided to try Christian Science I certainly was not so bad as I had been four months before, though considerably worse than for several months prior to that time. Any betterment that I seemed to manifest under medical treatment was always of a temporary nature, and the relapses which followed all such periods reduced me to a worse state than any previous one.
In the beginning of October, 1904, I saw that the temporary improvement in my condition had stopped, and that for the past three or four weeks my pains had been steadily getting worse. With my previous experiences of intense suffering, I saw no apparent loophole of escape but suicide. A friend of mine, however, recommended me to try Christian Science, so I decided to abandon all medical treatment and turned to Christian Science for help as a last resort. I went to London and commenced treatment early in October, 1904. I was at this time only able to walk a little bit with the help of two sticks. For about three and a half months the distressing conditions seemed to refuse to yield, but one afternoon towards the end of January, 1905, I went as usual to the practitioner's house for treatment, and entered his room leaning on the two strong sticks, my body twisted and the spine seemingly lacking the ability to be straight. I left that room with the sticks under my arms, and have had no occasion for their use since. I was practically healed, and the improvement since then, about two and a half years ago, has been continuous and permanent. In a letter received from the practitioner the next day, he told me he had acted in accordance with Mrs. Eddy's teachings in Science and Health, p. 420: 28 to 11 next page. The result was marvelous! By the middle of June I was able to walk five miles and suffered no ill effect from it. I steadily grew better, though the improvement was slow. In April, 1906, I did a fifteen-mile walk and felt none the worse. I have been back to duty since the end of May, 1906, and have been able to do everything that has been required of me.
I am most grateful for the help so generously given me in Christian Science; to Mrs. Eddy for her discovery and unselfish life, and above all, to God and His Christ for healing me.
