Having read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" for five years, and having received so much good, I want to tell others of it. In my darkest hour I sought help in Christian Science, after having been given up by materia medica. There was nothing left for me but this one chance, and I took it; and I thank God that I did, for it has awakened me to the truth of being.
The doctors called my case loco-motor ataxia, and for ten years I was a sufferer from it. I tried all kinds of treatment, but constantly grew worse. In fact, I became so bad that I took as many as fifteen hypodermics each day for a long time, in my effort to get relief from the pain; but it always returned when the effects of the drug wore off. I could scarcely walk, my appetite was gone, and sometimes I could not sleep for a whole week, and then only a little. I prayed daily for death, thinking it would relieve me of my suffering; but Christian Science has shown me I was only praying for more error. In my extremity I sought this Christ-healing, and the "still small voice" whispered to me that I should know myself as God's child.
The first paragraph in Science and Health, which reads, "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God," seemed to urge me on, and I no longer prayed for death, but instead, prayed to get nearer to Christ, Truth, as revealed by our dear Leader. I am working daily to stand for Truth with my whole heart, and am healthier and happier than I have ever been in my whole life. I can walk without a cane or crutch, or material props of any kind, knowing that Truth will hold me up if I only allow it to abide in my habitation.
