It is with a heart full of gratitude to God that I testify to the perfect health, peace, and joy I have known since I accepted Christian Science. Like many stubborn people, I refused to investigate its teaching for more than seven years, thinking it to be some cult of a superstitious nature. Having been frail from childhood, always subject to attacks of croup and to coughs, I was practically an invalid for twelve years. I had gone the rounds of the doctors, my husband being associated with them through his interest in the drug business. We had all confidence in materia medica, and watched with pride the scientific experiments of surgeons and practising physicians.
About seven years ago we came West with the fervent hope that I would regain my health. For a time I improved wonderfully, but the sense of chill was so severe that in my emaciated condition it became a disease which exceeded all my other afflictions and made existence seem a torture. I attributed it to my nervous condition, so we lived on the hills and I stayed in the open as much as possible; yet I did not improve, so we sold our place and moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back again, seeking a place where I could live without being chilled all the while. By this time my husband had become almost as sensitive to the condition as I, and we had decided to go to Arizona or some warmer climate, when I was taken very ill, first with a very severe attack of cold, followed by chronic stomach trouble. We called the physician who had treated me while I lived in Los Angeles, one of the best I had ever known. We had come to consider him a personal friend, and he did everything in a medical way to give me relief, but I never spent a more wretched night than that.
Then a friend who had recently taken up Christian Science, asked me to try its treatment, and though I was perfectly desperate, I told her that even if I should consider it, I felt sure my husband would not approve. My surprise may be imagined when she told me that he had telephoned her, saying he wished she would get me into her way of thinking. I relate this to show how God supplies others with faith, when we ourselves are lacking, to lead our stubborn wills into the right channel. She had asked that we would not hold prejudiced thoughts against Science, and here was the answer to her prayer, strengthening her faith besides starting us aright. A practitioner came, and I was surprised to learn that it was to God we should look for healing. In three days I was taking my meals at the table and eating anything I desired, which I had not done for years. With the appetite of a hungry child I partook of the things prohibited in the past, and have ever since eaten anything at any hour without the slightest inconvenience.
