For me to say that I am grateful for what Christian Science has done and is doing for me, but mildly expresses my sentiments. Before knowing of this healing truth I was hopeless, a physical and mental wreck, my chief trouble being extreme nervousness combined with an acute stomach difficulty. I visited various sanitariums in the North and the South, tried everything that could be suggested in the line of materia medica, including electrical treatment, massage, baths, also a complete "rest-cure" a number of times, seeing only the physicians and special nurses who were attending me; but with all of this I received only temporary relief. Finally, in the spring of the year 1906, the verdict pronounced by a great nerve specialist who had been treating my case was that I must return to the hospital indefinitely, and this with little encouragement as to a permanent cure.
It was at this time that "man's extremity" proved to be "God's opportunity." Upon being advised to return to the place I had just left, I became disgusted, discouraged, and discontented with life. Seeing then that nothing from a material standpoint could give me permanent relief, as a last resort I turned to Christian Science. Here I found God, the God for whom I had been yearning and praying all my life, the God who is Love, Life, Truth, the source of all strength and health, the God who will destroy all of our seeming ills if we go to Him in the right way.
Having been born and reared a Jewess, I had, immediately after taking up Christian Science, a great deal of opposition to contend with, but none of this had any effect. I am happy to state that since this wonderful truth has entered my life, I am better off in every respect. My healing was very slow, a practitioner coming to see me every day for eight months, and I then took absent treatment for about a year. During this time, however, I came to see things, not as they seem to be, but as they really are; in other words, to observe them from a spiritual standpoint, which is eternal, and not from a material, which is temporal. My physical healing, though slow, was beautiful, and the spiritual uplift is more to me than I am able to express in words. It makes one feel as though he were in a different atmosphere,— an atmosphere where thoughts are loftier, purer, and more Godlike.
