I was first attracted to Christian Science about four years ago, through the healing of my brother from chronic rheumatism, catarrh, and the tobacco habit. After having exhausted all the means prescribed in materia medica (he had been treated by the best doctors in our city, and by various doctors elsewhere), he was sent to several mineral springs for treatment, but returned home very little benefited. He was then asked to try Christian Science, and although he had no confidence in it, there was nothing else to turn to, and he consented to give it a trial. He was healed in a few months of all the above-mentioned physical troubles, besides being regenerated spiritually. The spiritual healing impressed me even more than did the physical, and was indeed what led me to investigate Christian Science.
I knew that anything which could bring about such a change as had taken place in my brother, must be good, and I wanted to know what it was. With this thought I commenced to read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and it was not long before I had an opportunity to prove something for myself. I was taken with violent toothache in the night. I had no material remedy on hand, or I might have been tempted to use it; but the thought came to me that if the teachings of this book had done so much for my brother, it might help me. So I got up, and began to read in the text-book, and in a short while the pain was quieted, so that I retired. But soon I was disturbed again, even more violently than the first time. I arose, and again began to read the text-book, and in a short time the pain left me—this time for good.
This was my first healing in Christian Science, and I often look back to it as my infantile step. From that time on I had many remarkable experiences, among them being the healing of a skin disease, and terrible headaches. I was examined by a specialist, and he said the headaches came from a growth in my head. He prescribed for me, and said if I was not better in a short time, he would have to operate. I took the prescription with me. but never used it, for thank God, I turned to Christian Science, to the one true God, who is Love, and that asserted growth vanished into its native nothingness. This one God, divine Mind, as Mrs. Eddy teaches us, has been my only physician ever since. I am now healthier and happier than I ever was, or expected to be, in my life.
