I am a student of Christian Science, and it is my desire to help others to understand the truth. Today, as I was reading the Sentinel, the thought came to me that maybe I could help not only one but many by giving my testimony of how the truth was revealed to me.
On July 3, 1912, I had a very sick baby, according to sense-testimony. For three days he had been suffering from a severe form of bowel trouble. He had a high fever, and could not keep even a teaspoonful of water on his stomach. I was a believer in and practised homeopathy for my children, my husband, and myself, but one Easter Sunday before this I had gone to a Christian Science church with a friend who was a Scientist, I did not understand the Lesson-Sermon, but from that time some literature was sent me. I was not always careful to read it, and did not understand very much of it, but I especially liked the testimonies.
I had always believed in God and had a strong desire to serve Him, but somehow I felt I did not know how to go at it. The Scientists I knew seemed to be very happy and sought the society of one another, and I longed to know what they had that I had not. On this day I had given up trying to help the baby, for I had given him the usual medicine and he had not retained it. All day the thought would present itself, Does that medicine really do what is claimed for it? But I kept on giving it to the baby until four in the afternoon, when I decided to send for the doctor, as the child seemed so sick.
