When some eight years ago I was told about Christian Science by my sister, I was such a great sufferer that I was longing to die. I then heard of a woman who had been healed after twelve years of suffering, and what attracted me more especially to this teaching was the fact that it claimed to be Christian.
I was suffering from varicose veins in both legs, having to wear bandages and to take medicine frequently. Being employed at the time as cook in a clergyman's family, I had come to regard my trouble as God sent, but when I got a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, I soon discovered that this was not true. When I look back to that time, I remember the feeling that it was Christ who was going to heal me, and I longed for the arrival of the book which was to reveal the saving truth. When it came, I took it up-stairs, and before opening it I took off my bandages, a thing I had been told I must never do. I opened the book at the chapter on Prayer, which just suited my need, as all my life I had loved to pray, staying up till very late in order to get time with God when I honestly thought He was not so occupied with other people's troubles, and often rising again at four o'clock for the same reason. I kept Science and Health open in a drawer, going to it at intervals to read from its inspiring pages, and I felt I was healed, for my fear left me.
On my way down-stairs the next morning, something tried to tell me I could not get down, but Christ, Truth, came to my aid and, to tell in a few words what it would take pages to write, I was healed. The clergyman and his wife could not understand it; they saw that I was well and knew I never complained, but they made no remarks, and were shocked when after six months I told them that it was Christian Science which had healed me. I was given tracts against Christian Science to read, but like the blind man, I knew one thing, and that was, that I was healed. The vicar wanted my book, but I told him he must get one for himself; I could not let him have mine. However, though they still visit me in my home, they have never said another word to me on the subject of Christian Science.
