The truth of the "scientific statement of being," given on page 468 in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, has been proven to me in the past year, and has brought me immeasurable blessings. When but five years old I was taken with what the doctors pronounced a serious condition of the bone in my right limb. After a prolonged illness, which was very severe, I recovered in a measure, but the trouble recurred at intervals, and during the fall of 1906 I had a very severe attack. At this time I was a physical wreck, having a complete nervous breakdown and other troubles, which made my case a very serious one from a material standpoint. To mortal sense I suffered terribly, and although we employed the best medical aid we could secure, and had a number of able physicians, who did all in their power to help me, I rapidly grew worse instead of better. The only rest that I had was while I was dazed from the effects of a double dose of morphine, which had to be administered hypodermically to take any effect. My kind doctor, who came to see me once, twice, and sometimes three times a day, had decided that the only thing for me was an operation, and he feared I would lose my limb and perchance my life.
My case had become so serious that we had several physicians, and all seemed to agree that it was absolutely necessary for me to submit to an operation. At this time we called an eminent surgeon for consultation, he being the one we had decided to employ to perform the operation; but after making a thorough examination he advised waiting another week, to see what nature might do for me. That he feared the consequences of an operation was plain to be seen. I shall always thank God for that man's decision, for within the next few days my business manager came to see me and told me of his healing through Christian Science, inviting me to try it before submitting to the use of the knife and probable loss of my limb. The thought of being healed by God seemed so beautiful to me that I was anxious to take up Christian Science immediately, and my wife, eager to secure anything that promised relief from suffering, went at once to the Reading Rooms and brought literature for me to read. From the Journal we selected a practitioner.
I thank God for the friend who told me of the truth that makes us free, and which enabled me to discharge my doctor and depend upon the "great Physician," who is able and willing to heal our bodies as well as our souls. I had, in addition to the troubles mentioned when I turned to Science for help, stomach, bowel, and kidney trouble, and these were all overcome by the first treatment given me in Christian Science. The doctor would permit me to eat only a few things, but the practitioner said, relative to a question which was at once asked him by my anxious wife, that I could eat anything. This I found true, although all my life previously I had been subject to a bad form of stomach trouble, having to be very careful at all times what I ate; but I now know no such fear and eat anything I want, nor do I suffer any inconvenience from it.
