I am sincerely grateful to be able to testify to the blessings which flow toward humanity through Christian Science — this glorious truth which saves us from blind faith and brings us the fruits of Spirit.
As far as I can think back I was a sickly child. Up to the age of six I was confined to my room all winter long, and for the next twelve years had medical treatment constantly. Everything was tried that human skill could afford—baths, drugs, massage, etc.,—and the best results were expected from every new curative method. These expectations at first would seem to be realized, but, alas, a relapse causing terrible mental depression and physical weakness would follow only too soon. Finally a physician advised me to give up trying to be relieved in this way. He even said that my system was poisoned with drugging.
Having been brought up in a religious home, I early became acquainted with the Bible, and was taught to love God and His Son Jesus Christ, but as I grew older I was less and less able to understand God. How could I trust Him as a loving Father, if He sent me so much suffering? Was this compatible with love? Could He not have let me die when I was a child, so that I should have been spared all this suffering? I became unhappy and embittered, and all I asked for was that I should be left alone.
