For nineteen years I suffered from a painful affection of the side, which resulted in a disease of the liver. About two years ago I was operated on for this trouble and, though I received temporary relief, my physicians informed me that in two years I would again have to go on the operating table for the same thing. Before the two years had elapsed I again suffered intensely with my side. Hoping to avoid another operation, I exhausted the skill of the physicians in my own town as well as that of noted specialists, and at last I made up my mind to die, there being little hope that I would live through the operation. For ten months I waited for death to relieve me of my pain. In the nine weeks prior to my healing I could neither lie down nor sit up. and sleep deserted me entirely. My side was greatly enlarged, and it was impossible for me to use my arms. Neither tongue nor pen could portray the darkness and gloom which overshadowed my home, and to make this gloom still darker, I believed that God had afflicted me with all this pain.
Hungering and thirsting for the truth, I suffered on. I had known of Christian Science for some time, but believing that it was only some bright fancy I feared to try it. At last, however, through the advice of a neighbor, I turned in my extremity to Christian Science. With the death-pallor on my brow I went to a practitioner, and how can I ever tell what followed! Those who have been in the same darkness and bondage, and have found God, know the joy of the relief which followed my visit. That night I slept the sweet sleep of a babe, and in the morning I felt like a new person. Inside of a week I was perfectly healed, and I have had no symptom of the trouble since. Many other ailments, for which I had never been treated, vanished like dew before the sun. The enlargement in my side disappeared almost without my knowing it.
Refreshed, strengthened, healed; happy in the presence of a God who had been proved to be Love, I felt that I had truly been "born again." In one short week the transition had brought me from the blackest hell, home to the Father's house. Words could never tell the blessings that Christian Science has brought into my home and life. It is not only the physical healing, for that is least of all, but Christian Science has made me acquainted with God as an all-merciful, all-wise, all-loving, heavenly Father.
