Christian Science has wrought such a change in my life and in my home, that it would be difficult for me to find words to express the gratitude I feel for these blessings, but I send this testimony, trusting that it may encourage some one who is incredulous as to the healing in Christian Science of what are called chronic or organic diseases. I had never known what it was to feel well, being a very delicate child and a sufferer for nearly all my life, although every remedy had been tried to cure or relieve me of rheumatic gout, from which I had suffered for twenty-five years.
When Christian Science was mentioned to me, I was willing to try it,—as one more remedy,—even though I knew nothing of its nature. I told the practitioner that I had organic heart disease, but did not suppose she could cure me of anything so serious as that, not knowing at that time that the cure would come from God, instead of a person. I had taken only a few treatments and had read the text-book but partly through, when I felt that I would cheerfully take the suffering if only I could understand this inspired teaching. While I had been a church-member since childhood, and an active worker in the church, I had no satisfying religion and rarely opened the Bible, for it seemed so contradictory to me and I could not find God. All this is, however, changed now, for the books I best like to read are the Bible and our textbook, and these books and Mrs. Eddy's other writings have brought to me that comfort and peace of mind, at all times, which is truly sustaining.
My healing was slow, and I sometimes became discouraged with my own dulness, for I was impatient to understand all of truth at once, not realizing, as I do now. that it is a growth and means constant watchfulness and overcoming on our part. Since my first treatment, now over three years ago, I have not used any material remedy whatever, though formerly our bills for drugs came in regularly each month. While I have great respect for the physicians who are doing their best to relieve suffering, I feel that when we rely on God alone we are safe, and Mrs. Eddy has taught us how to do this. For her example and her writings we cannot be grateful enough, for no one, since Christ Jesus was on earth, has done so much for humanity.
