Each day I feel more grateful for what Christian Science has done for me. For ten years I was a great sufferer from a complication of diseases. After having tried seven physicians, three operations, and many noted remedies, I was advised to go to a sanitarium, where I could have treatment from a specialist of world-wide reputation. He diagnosed my troubles as abdominal growths, also stomach, bowel, kidney, and liver trouble; in fact, he said I was in a condition to die at any time, and the only advice he could give me was to have another operation of a very serious nature. He said there was no hope that I could live any length of time without it, and very little that I could live through it. He told me that my energy was all that was in my favor. The operation relieved me of the troublesome growths, and after spending the whole winter there, I was carried home more dead than alive. My health improved for a while, but in a few months I went back to the sanitarium, to this same physician, suffering quite as much as before. After spending three weeks there and growing worse all the time, I insisted on knowing the truth about my condition. The physician told me he had hoped that after the operation I would be better of everything, but now he knew of nothing' in medical science which could cure me; that the bowel trouble, which was of itself sufficient to cause death in a short time, was even worse than before.
I went home from there to die! I tried magnetic healing, but soon gave it up in disgust. Then I wanted to ask our minister to pray for me, but when I remembered that his wife was an invalid, I only asked him why ministers did not heal the sick as they were commanded in the Bible. He tried to comfort me by telling me of other Christians who were sufferers. It was then that a friend told me of Christian Science, and I had absent treatments for three weeks and was gloriously healed. From the first day my healing was rapid. I think that I must have been healed entirely the first week. Some of my friends have seemed to take a delight in telling that I was healed by the operation. but as I went back to the sanitarium a few months after this operation and was pronounced incurable by the same specialist who performed it, this surely proves that I was not healed by the operation.
But I thank God that I was healed, both physically and spiritually, by Christian Science, and I cannot express my gratitude for this truth that makes free. My heart goes out in sincere thanks each day to God, and to dear Mrs. Eddy. My progress has seemed quite slow, and my way steep and rough, but our dea Leader has said, "Divine Love is our hope, strength, and shield. We have nothing to fear when Love is at the helm of thought, but everything to enjoy on earth and in Heaven" (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 113). — Nashville, Tenn.
