I have so many blessings through Christian Science to record, that many pages would still fail to tell the whole of them. I can only say with the psalmist, "If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." This wonderful religion of love has revealed to me God, even Him "who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;" and mine were many.
A little more than two years ago I had my first treatment in Christian Science, and at that time I had not known what health was for many years. I had undergone two very severe operations without receiving any relief from a complication of diseases (which the physicians afterward told me could not be helped), among them being abnormal growths, internal abscesses, etc., and from the operations had resulted other ills. At the time Christian Science was brought to me I was suffering from severe hemorrhages from the bowels and had been told by a physician that only an operation could stop them, though he could give no hope that I would come out of the operation safely, owing to my weakened condition. After hearing this verdict I went to a Christian Science practitioner, and was healed in the first treatment. After this healing I went to see the physician, to tell him that I would not need the operation as I had been healed, and he declared that the condition would return,—"It could not be healed," were the words he used.
Every disease from which I ever suffered has been completely overcome, and my eyes also have been healed, although I never had a treatment for them. I had worn glasses for about eight years, and my eyes were so bad that I could not read more than ten minutes by artificial light; but soon after I began to read Science and Health I went to my room one evening and took up the book, intending to read as long as I could. I became so absorbed in its teaching that I forgot the passing of time, but when after what seemed to me a very short while I looked at my watch, f found it was nearly twelve o'clock. I thought it strange that I had been able to read so long, and reaching up involuntarily to remove my glasses, I found that I did not have them on. I then realized, to my great joy, that I could say with the prophet Isaiah, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."
