Christian Science has been to me
Port after stormy seas,
Peace after pain.
From childhood all I had known of this wonderful regenerator was through ridicule and unwitting misrepresentation, so that it was not until long suffering had broken down the wall of prejudice that I determined to inquire at first hand into the Science. For three years or more before this time I had been in such a wretched condition that life —in spite of every outward surrounding which could bring happiness—was little more than a weary burden. I had been under the care of several different physicians of high standing, and had also taken treatments, both of osteopathy and massage, for many months. At the close of the second year of this sort of existence the sleeplessness and attacks of extreme depression had only increased their hold, and I was obliged to resort to drugs in increasing quantities to obtain any sort of relief. At the same time I realized and was made desperate by the thought that this was simply leading me to a worse slavery.
