In September of last year a friend handed me a copy of The Christian Science Journal, which she asked me to read; but I found its teaching so different from anything I had ever read, that I laid it aside. When my friend asked me later if I was reading the Journal, I gave some excuse, and premised I would do so. I then got to thinking that as some of the most highly esteemed people of our community had accepted Christian Science, I ought to investigate it and see what its teachings were. I again commenced to read the Journal, and soon became deeply interested. A few weeks later I was taken very seriously ill with a disease which had become chronic. The physician who had attended me during former attacks, said the end was only a question of time, as the disease was incurable. Previously, when attacked, I would be confined to my bed for weeks, living on a milk diet, but when this attack came on, I had grasped enough of the truth to know that all power is from God, and I turned to those dear people who had shown me the blessed truth for help in this dark hour of intense pain and suffering. In two hours I was sleeping soundly, and have since had no symptoms of a return of the much dreaded disease.
I had also had for four years what three physicians pronounced a dreaded disease on my breast. That, too, has disappeared under Christian Science treatment. I have since seen many demonstrations in my own and also in my mother's family, which showed me unmistakably that Christian Science, as revealed to us by Mrs. Eddy, is the only true way we have for approaching our blessed Saviour, and getting the spiritual comfort and joy that God intends all His children to have.
The study of this healing truth has brought so much peace and joy to our home, that sometimes I think I can say, as did St. John while imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos, that "the former things are passed away," and I see "a new heaven and a new earth." The Bible, as explained in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, is like a new book to me. It teachings used to seem obscure and impracticable in daily life, but now I am beginning to prove that the promises of the Bible are true, by daily applications of its truths as explained by Mrs. Eddy. When I think over my way of living before I found this blessed truth, my heart goes out with deepest gratitude to God for the revelation which has come through our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy.
