It is with a deep sense of gratitude that I give my experience for publication, hoping that others passing through the deep waters of affliction, as i did, may see a ray of hope and lay hold on eternal Truth as revealed to us in Christian Science. During the year 1894 my health began to fail; for several years I was able to do very little work, and the greater part of the time not any. I was constantly under medical treatment, besides trying many remedies. I consulted and received treatment from five of our leading physicians, and was told that my illness had developed from injuries received in childbirth. Not receiving any permanent help, an operation was suggested, to which I submitted; and being no better some fifteen months later, a second was performed. After recovering sufficiently from this, I was told that yet another was necessary before I could be well. I declined to have anything more done, and returned home sick and discouraged, as I felt I could not pass through such an ordeal again. My condition grew worse and I lost all hope of ever getting well.
At the expiration of seven months Christian Science was presented to me, and after much kindly persuasion on the practitioner's part, I discharged my medical attendant and received Christian Science treatment. From the first I began to gain. In three days I sat up all day and took quite a little walk, something I had not been able to do for many months. Hope revived, strength and courage took the place of weakness and depression. I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, began to read it, and found therein "the bread of life."
I had suffered from stomach trouble, besides other ailments, but was told by the Christian Science practitioner to eat anything I wanted, because it could not hurt me. I did so, and have never suffered from the disease since. While an inmate of the hospital I was ordered to wear a surgical appliance, and felt that I could not take a step without it. After two weeks' treatment this was mentioned to the practitioner, and she said, "So long as you put your trust in that instead of in God, you will not be healed." After several attempts it was removed with the firm resolve never to put it on again. It is safe to say I never felt the need of it afterward; for as we lay off our material appendages and false trusts, the real and perfect man appears. In a few months I was able to do all my work, and in little more than a year was entirely healed.
