In Science and Health (p. 234) we read, "Whatever inspires with wisdom, Truth, or Love—be it song, sermon, or Science—blesses the human family with crumbs of comfort from Christ's table, feeding the hungry and giving living waters to the thirsty." These words by Mrs. Eddy explain my healing, which began about nine years ago. I had been a semi-invalid for several years, from the time I was a young girl. The early symptoms were a cough, and a daily rise of temperature. The difficulty was diagnosed by two doctors, one a world-famous specialist, as incipient lung trouble, and a change of climate was pronounced absolutely necessary.
Then began a wearisome search for health. My mother took me abroad, and we lived in various climates, had many physicians who offered many theories, tried massage, electric baths, exercise, fresh air, diet, and tonics; but the weak, restless condition continued, and coupled with sleeplessness so extreme that sleeping powders had become a habit, and inability properly to digest food, made my life a discouraging drag. After several years of this experience I was aroused to a divine discontent and was ready to be healed mentally. A book was lent me from which I caught the idea of the oneness of Life, the unity of God and man. This may sound trite to some, but to me it was new. I had had no Sunday school training and no church connection, except the most tenuous, but I took this thought into my consciousness eagerly, and the healing began.
The seeking continued until I began the study of Christian Science. Then I no longer needed to seek, for I had found. Since then I have been striving ever to gain more understanding of the Science of being, persistently endeavoring to bring every thought and feeling out of the negative into the positive or godlike consciousness, out of the material into the spiritual.
