Nine years ago, shortly after the birth of a little son, my health began to fail. The first warning came as an intestinal trouble. For five long years, though under the loving care of a devoted family, trained nurses, and skilled physicians, my health grew steadily more feeble. Each year I took stronger and more nauseating drugs for a most painful form of bowel trouble, with less and less help therefrom. My eyes failed me, it being discovered that I had serious structural defects; and even though I wore glasses constantly and used my eyes very little, I was subject to severe headaches, which were increasing in frequency and severity. Moreover, one limb troubled me exceedingly when I stood or walked, the result of a condition from which I suffered at the birth of my second child; and added to this I was for three years extremely nervous, until four years ago I was daily cursing God and man, for I was hopeless. I had, it seemed, tried everything, doctors of the regular school of medicine, specialists, operations, etc., and always with the same result,—never more than slight temporary relief, and then a deeper and deeper slough of despond.
At last, because I wished to quiet the demand of one of my family who desired me to try some other method of cure, I said I would try Christian Science, because that was at hand and it was probably as good as any. In this mental state, and with almost no knowledge of what Christian Science teaches, my healing began. I was healed instantaneously of the bowel trouble. My glasses were thrown away in less than a week, and in six weeks I was a well woman, able to take up the full charge of a family and a large house; and best of all, I had learned that the God I had cursed was only a myth, and that there was a God I could bless, a God who is Life, Truth, and Love, omnipotent good, and who is with me every hour, to help to save and to heal from the man-made beliefs of sickness, sin, and death.
For these first healings, and this awakening to the glory of God and man as made in His image and likeness, as well as for the healings and help of four years crowded full of freedom and happiness, I wish to express my gratitude to God, and my thanks to Mrs. Eddy, who made the way so plain through her text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," for all who wish to know the truth, and for having been so lovingly guided along the way of Life.— Beverly, Mass.
