In the Psalms we read: "Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee." I learned to see the truth of this verse last year, when I had a severe illness. As I had violent headache, a remedy was prescribed, but the pain kept growing more severe. The physician in attendance then said that I should immediately consult a specialist for the nose and ears. The latter, the highest authority in this line, declared, after a thorough examination (X-rays also having been used), that I must submit to an operation, at the latest on the next day. I was like one sentenced to death. The pain became almost unbearable, and my mother-in-law advised that I take treatment from a Christian Science practitioner; but I refused, as its teaching was inconsistent with the notions I had gained at school about Christianity. That people should get sick I considered as a matter of course, and also that I could never be healed without resorting to an operation, although I realized how dangerous it was. The pain, however, grew worse all the time, and I did not know what was going to happen nor how I would spend the night, so I finally agreed to go to a practitioner. I went to the Christian Science reading-room, and was told that a practitioner would be sent as soon as possible.
When I reached home I went to bed and fell asleep, a thing I had not been able to do for four days. About two hours later the practitioner came to see me, and after another hour the pain was completely gone. In three weeks' time I was completely healed, and all that the physician who had treated me formerly could say was, that a miracle had been wrought in my case. About the same time my little daughter, two and a half years old, began to stammer very badly; but with a few treatments this, too, was overcome, and to our joy normal speech was restored. One year after, the same child was taken seemingly very ill. She had high fever, and complained of pain in the chest, etc. We had, however, no sense of fear, and a single treatment was sufficient to enable the child to get up well the next morning.
Not only in the cases just mentioned, but in many others, Christian Science has shown us the right way. We are grateful, therefore, to Mrs. Eddy, that through divine revelation she was enabled to show to humanity the way which leads to light.
