Four years ago I was healed through one treatment in Christian Science of a very aggravated case of hay-fever. I had been subject to these attacks for eighteen years, rarely passing through August and September without untold suffering, but I have had no return of the trouble. I did not, however, at once begin the study of Christian Science. In addition to the disease mentioned I had violent headaches, intense nervousness, and worst of all, a form of neuralgia for which I had tried every known remedy. Different operations only removed pain from one part of the body to another, stubborn attacks yielding only to opiates or chloroform, and my condition and weak heart made this a dangerous remedy.
I had had financial reverses, and experienced general discontent. I was without God; I had given up the churches and was reading "isms." I indeed cared but little as to the outcome of life, but a time came when through hearing an explanation of a passage in the Bible, I was led to try to see the truth. Mrs. Eddy tells us that "desire is prayer" (Science and Health, p. 1), and as I have made earnest search with Science and Health, which is indeed a "Key to the Scriptures," I have been enabled to see the wonders of divine Love. My physical ailments were quickly overcome; I put off glasses, worn for years; neuralgia never touches me, and from a sickly weakling, I have become a thoroughly healthy person, fully realizing the nothingness of sleeplessness, fainting, and heart trouble.
I offer as proof of this, for the benefit of others, the fact that a few years ago I was refused life insurance; one year ago I was accepted as a perfectly healthy woman, the doctor especially noticing a steady, strong heart. In Science and Health we read: "When you have once conquered a diseased condition of the body through Mind, that condition never recurs, and you have won a point in Science" (p. 217). Daily I am enabled to prove for myself and others the power of Truth, when rightly understood, to meet all trials. Our son, at the time of our change of thought, was a frail, undersized boy of sixteen; his life a long struggle with ill health, with the prediction made for him of never reaching manhood. Today he is above the average height, a perfect specimen of manhood, and gives the glory to Christian Science. This, to my thought, is a conclusive proof of the regeneration of mind and body by the power of Truth.
