For four or five years prior to the time I accepted Christian Science, the text-book had been in our home, my husband being a student of it, and during these years our two children became pupils in the Christian Science Sunday school. Notwithstanding all this, I did not accept the truth, chiefly, because of unwillingness to leave the church to which I belonged. The time came, however, when I wished I might feel the joy expressed by many Scientists in their published testimonials and at Wednesday evening meetings, —the spiritual uplifting which comes with the healing, and the desire came to me that I too might have that blessing.
We had been in Minneapolis nearly two years when it became necessary for me to have some dentistry done. Hitherto great suffering had attended dental work, and the thought came to me that if all these testimonies I had read and heard were true, Christian Science could help me: so I asked a practitioner to help me, and she gave me two treatments. Words cannot tell the joy, the peace and freedom which came as a result. As the dentist commenced his work there was only a slight sensation, and after the first few applications of the instruments there was none whatever. I found myself saying over and over, "It is true." The work lasted nearly two hours. Several cavities were cleansed and filled— two with gold. Some were large, for fear had kept me from having proper attention given, but the work was completed without physical discomfort.
For this relief I am truly grateful, but the spiritual joy which came with the healing cannot be expressed in words. Those two hours in the dentist's chair were the happiest of my life, for then came the realization of the ever presence of God, also of the new birth, and from that time the truth has been unfolded to me more and more as obedience to the command, "Seek and ye shall find," has been observed.
