It is with a heart filled to overflowing with gratitude that I am prompted to write these lines, testifying to the healing efficacy of Christian Science. I suffered for five years with stomach and bowel troubles, and in consequence thereof with extreme nervousness. During all that time I was constantly in the hands of doctors; I was also at one of the best equipped and best known sanitariums in this country for four months, where every known remedy, invention, and appliance was resorted to; but I had to leave there without being healed. My husband was greatly worried about me all these years, and from the intense and constant strain his health finally broke down, so that the doctors advised him to leave the city for other climates.
This added greatly to my sorrow in those dark days already so full of misery, and it was at this time that Christian Science was brought to us. My husband, who had returned to St. Louis, received a little booklet one day, called "Prayer and Confidence," from a friend who knew of our trials and troubles. This friend had been healed in Christian Science and was anxious that we, too, should try it. I read that little booklet over and over again; the power of Truth was felt, and a light began to dawn; I dared to hope that at last I, too, would be healed. I got the understanding that Christian Science meant healing by God, through prayer, and I reasoned that if others were being healed through prayer, I could be healed in the same way. I had always prayed, but was more than willing to learn how to pray correctly if I had prayed amiss.
When my husband came home that evening, I apprised him of all, and asked him to get me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, the book I saw referred to in the pamphlet, as I was so anxious to get well. He readily promised to do so, but told me after I was healed, that he felt at the time it would probably be the last thing he could do for me, and that I reminded him of a drowning man grasping at a straw to save himself. At the same time, he did not believe that Christian Science would ever heal me; in fact, we both had been very antagonistic to Christian Science up to that time. But all praise and honor be to God, how differently it turned out! Two weeks after receiving that pamphlet I began to take Christian Science treatment, and in two treatments both the intestinal and the stomach troubles were completely healed, not a trace of them being left. The nervous condition, however, was very slow to yield; but finally it, too, was entirely overcome. My husband has been in St. Louis ever since we took up Christian Science, now over three years ago, and I am very grateful for the healing in both of these cases; but I am still more grateful for my understanding of the truth that meets every human need.
