I began to read the Christian Science literature about nine years ago, and finding so much truth therein, I decided to have treatment for an ailment to which I had been in bondage since I was a young girl. I was healed by absent treatment in a very short time, although I had tried medicine many times and failed to find relief; so I was without help until I found it in Christian Science. I had been a church-member since I was fifteen years old, and always had a desire to know more about God. I really wanted to be good and do right, but the spiritual meaning of the gospel did not dawn upon me till it came with Christian Science.
My husband also has been healed through Christian Science treatment. He had suffered terribly with a throat trouble for eleven days; it seemed as if he would pass on. We went to a doctor, who said he could do nothing, that my husband must endure it four or five days longer, and then the throat could be lanced. We started for home, a distance of sixteen miles, almost discouraged, but stopped on the way and talked with his mother. Seeing his condition, she thought something must be done. She therefore telephoned for help from a Christian Science practitioner some miles away, and before we reached home he was better. By the time we arrived there he could talk and said he was all right. He ate supper with the rest of us that evening, and retired in peace. Next morning all the swelling was gone; it just went to its native nothingness without any material means being used.
Some years after this my husband again had trouble with his throat, but in a different way,—it was something like a tumor. As we could not get the same practitioner as before, there was considerable fear with both of us, so we went to a doctor again, and the lance was used. The doctor gave us little encouragement, as he said the disease had gone all through the system. We did not heed what he said, knowing that all things are possible with God, but went to a Christian Science practitioner in the same town. My husband rested well that night and was quite a little better. Next morning we went home, and after he had taken about a week's treatment he was perfectly healed. The tobacco habit left him during this time, although he had used the weed since he was a small boy. The healing occurred about six years ago, and has been permanent.
