My life and all I am today I owe to Christian Science. Human language is inadequate to express my gratitude for what it has done for me! At the age of eighteen years I was stricken with what is considered an incurable disease of the kidneys, in its most malignant form. I had passed from the first to the last stage. I was kept on a rigid diet, and the starvation, together with the heroic treatment I had to endure while under the doctor's care, besides the knowledge that I was growing rapidly worse, caused me to lose all faith in medicine.
During this time my attending physician consulted with another physician here, and my mother also consulted a specialist from outside, who pronounced my case past medical aid. The final verdict, which came near being a deathblow to my mother, was to the effect that everything known to the medical profession had been done for her boy, and that it was doubtful if the remedies now being used were any more efficient in this disease than those used fifty years ago. It is not much wonder, under these circumstances, that I became utterly disheartened, what with the intense suffering and with death staring me in the face, as it were.
I then turned to Christian Science for help, and three months from the day that a practitioner was called to our house, I walked nine blocks and entered the Christian Science reading-room, to the surprise of my practitioner and a number of others who happened to be there at that time. From that day to this I have not seen a sick day, and am now in perfect health and celebrated my majority by casting my first vote the third day of November, 1908.
