In deepest gratitude to God, and also to Mrs. Eddy, for the many blessings which have come to me through Christian Science, I give the following testimony. In July, 1910, I was taken suddenly ill with what was diagnosed as an acute form of rheumatism. Every joint was affected, and there was hardly a moment in which I was free from pain. For nine months I suffered thus, trying different physicians, but with no improvement. At last the disease was said to have gone to the heart and I was given little or no hope of recovery.
I was advised by one of the best physicians of Chicago to go to a well-known health resort and take the mineral baths, as he said medical skill could do no more for me. I went there and took a course of baths, but returned home no better. I was then sent back to take another course, being assured that three weeks more of this treatment would surely benefit me; but upon returning home the second time I was examined by my physician and told that I had better go back and stay all winter at any cost, as I was even in worse condition than before, and the disease had extended to the head.
Discouraged and heart-broken, I gave up the fight for health and decided not to try to live any longer. At this point Christian Science saved me. I was healed in three treatments of organic heart trouble, caused from the rheumatism, and in a few weeks I was entirely free from pain. Minor ills, such as a stomach affection, "broken arches," and a nervous condition, have also been met and conquered by Truth.
