I, too, wish to bear grateful testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science to heal sickness and other discordant human conditions, for I and various members of my family have been benefited physically, spiritually, and financially. I did not come to Christian Science for physical healing, but I began studying the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, three years ago, at the request of a married sister who was being wonderfully benefited after many physicians had failed to give her relief. Earnest study of this book at once revealed its divine message, which a previous cursory examination had failed to disclose. Through Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of the Scriptures, the Bible, which had been a closed book to me since girlhood, became a spiritual treasure-house and a practical guide to right thought and conduct.
I have asked for Christian Science treatment on only two occasions, when a severe cold stubbornly seemed to resist my own application of the truth. In both instances, on applying to a practitioner, I was instantly benefited and quickly healed. Through my own study of the text-book and the application of the Principle of healing therein set forth, I have been gradually relieved of so-called hereditary headaches, from which I had suffered since childhood. In the last six months scarcely any evidence of the old symptoms has presented itself, and then the difficulty has yielded to Truth in minutes instead of hours.
A few months ago I wrenched my left ankle violently, and I awoke that night in great pain, for the injury was such that I had to step on the side of my foot. Fear tried to picture a possible repetition of an experience had some six years previous, when a similar injury to the other foot—pronounced by a Chicago physician broken arch, or flat foot—had caused much suffering for months, during which time I was obliged to wear a steel appliance in my shoe, and for about a year I was more or less inconvenienced by the injury. I decided that I would call a practitioner in the morning if it should be necessary, but meanwhile I declared the truth for about an hour, when, although there seemed to be little improvement, I fell asleep. In the morning the foot was almost normal, only a slight weakness remaining. Two days later I again turned the foot, though not so badly, but before I had gone a block the pain had yielded, and in an hour all was perfectly well. I have never experienced any further difficulty. A sister was healed at the first treatment of a bowel difficulty of twenty years standing; also, later, of an incipient lung difficulty and a stubborn cough.
