I feel it is a great privilege to tell of my healing in Christian Science. After many years of invalidism and suffering I was healed of heart disease, female trouble, and nervous breakdown, after having tried many physicians and newly discovered remedies without benefit or relief. I had traveled most of the time, thinking that change of climate would cure me; but all material means failing, I heard of Christian Science and decided to give it a trial. I began treatment with a practitioner in Denver, and from the first my physical condition was improved. As soon as the Principle of Christian Science, God, was explained to me, I saw that this was the concept of God I had ever looked for, and the spiritual uplift was so great that I felt I was truly willing to be "absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." I never doubted, but went to work to apply this rule with a childlike faith, and with each demonstration more understanding and reality was unfolded to my consciousness. Needless to say, a very few treatments healed me, giving me back to my husband and three dear sons, all of us rejoicing together over my freedom through the truth.
The physical healing was wonderful and beautiful, but the spiritual light gained lifted me above the darkness of night into the heavenly atmosphere of divine Love. I can never fully express my gratitude in words for the concept of God revealed by Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health, but hope to let my life attest it in deeds of loving-kindness to Others. All through my childhood I could get a better glimpse of God in a sweet strain of music, a beautiful thought expressed in poetry, or a kind word, than I could in all the strict religious observances to which I was subjected, my parents being members of an orthodox church and my grandfather a minister. I have every respect for the faith in which I was reared, but never received any satisfaction or benefit from the God it represented to me. Science and Health is indeed the "Key to the Scriptures," for it unlocks the treasures which are man's birthright, — freedom and dominion; and all we need is to get more understanding by application. The Bible says, "With all thy getting, get understanding."
I had been in Science some years when I was called to experience the sudden death of my youngest son, who was my close companion, and though my mother heart was sorely tried, it was purified. At that time I did not realize enough of the truth of being to overcome this claim, but I found God to be "a very present help in trouble" and I went through this experience realizing that "sorrow is not the master of joy"(Science and Health, p. 304). Through this purification I took a step from sense to Soul, and in this separation of the gold from the dross I was given the great privilege of helping others; and this is the greatest blessing of all, to lend a helping hand to those of my brothers and sisters who are carrying burdens.
