Before knowing about Christian Science I had been more or less of an invalid all my life, and was growing constantly more hopeless. A frail girl at the age of fifteen, I at that time had a fall which injured my back and brought on serious spinal trouble. I was compelled to leave school, yet I kept on my feet and tried to be happy and to do as others did. I was early married, but soon a new ailment was added to my affliction, a very severe form of stomach trouble. A trusted physician recommended all sorts of remedies and treatments. I followed the medical prescriptions faithfully for many years, but became more and more emaciated.
A change in my condition became evident the very day on which Christian Science was brought to me as a possible means of relief. It was on a Friday night that a neighbor handed me several copies of the Christian Science Sentinel, and my husband urged me to call in a Science practitioner at once. I had decided I would take no more medicines, for I felt they did me no good, but I clung to what I had read in those Sentinels and told my husband to wait till the next day, when I might be better, before doing anything. On Sunday morning he wished to carry me to the Christian Science church, but this was postponed until the following week. I cannot begin to describe the spiritual uplift which came when I listened to the reading of that beautiful service.—so new and strange; yet it seemed as if I must have heard and known it all before somewhere, and that for the loss or lack of it I had grown hungry and needed to learn it all over again. A copy of Science and Health was soon purchased. I read it constantly and eagerly, and my healing followed rapidly. I began to walk and be active.
Looking back over the three years since that time, I can truthfully say, and those who knew of my condition are saying it too, that I have been completely healed of the stomach trouble. I eat anything I like and feel no distress. The emaciated condition and extreme nervousness are gone. My back gives me very little trouble, and so improved am I that even my dressmaker exclaimed recently, "Why! even your back is a great deal straighter than it was last year." Three years ago I was not expected to live any length of time; now I present a picture of health. Considering how all this benefit has come to me through Mrs. Eddy's wonderful book, is there any reason why I should not feel gratitude to her who has rediscovered and given to this age the Christ-healing practised by Jesus, the Founder of Christianity, so many centuries ago? I see none.
