In the hope of helping some poor sufferer, I will give my experience with Christian Science after I had tried doctors and medicines of all kinds with little or no relief. Late in the fall of 1906 my husband and I were both taken with fever—in fact we had not been without some sickness for years. Although we had never then heard of Christian Science, my husband was led to send for his sister who lived in Tallahassee, and soon after her arrival she began to tell us of Christian Science. I said I did not know anything about it, and my husband laughed at the idea, but she said there was a Christian Scientist staying at her house, and she was inclined to think there was some good in it. Before our sister left us, my baby girl, a year old, was taken with a fever which she had been having off and on for four months, so I told my sister-in-law to tell the Scientist that if she could do the baby any good, to treat her. The Scientist gave her absent treatment, and to my surprise baby got well. Since that time, now nearly two years, she has had but one slight fever, and that left her in a few hours under Christian Science treatment.
In February, 1907, I began the study of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and since then time and space would fail me if I should try to tell how much this great truth has helped me in every way, for I had not seen a well day in ten years. I had headaches, also stomach and neuralgic disorders, which at times would last for weeks and be so severe that it seemed I could not live and suffer so. I was said to be a picture of despair, and I did despair; but now, thanks to God, and to His servant, our Leader, I am well. There is not a member of my family who has not been helped by this truth. My husband was healed of a dangerous growth on his neck, also of a fever in a severe form, by absent treatment.
Some time ago my little boy was taken sick and showed every symptom of fever. I found I could not overcome it, so we again sent for my husband's sister, who advised that we take the child to her home, where he could be with a practitioner. This we did Sunday night. Monday morning the practitioner called to see the child, and the fever left him that day. That afternoon he was able to drive to the reading-room. Those who have tried to serve God all their lives to the best of their understanding, can imagine how grateful I felt for this new light. I never knew a time in my life that I did not try to be a Christian, and I have been a Bible student all my life and loved it above all books, but the light which the writings of Mrs. Eddy throw upon it has revealed a new book to me.
