Over a year ago, when I began the study of Christian Science, I was in a very serious condition, having been told by three of our local physicians that I had an abnormal growth and must undergo an operation, the sooner the better. I was very much distressed, but soon after this, when conditions seemed hopeless and an operation the only means of relief, Christian Science came to me through a friend who is following its teachings, and who had given me literature to read at different times. She loaned me the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and after looking through it I felt such an eagerness and longing to know all about this wonderful truth that I purchased the book. I then began to study it in earnest, and the benefits received have been marvelous. There has been only one slight return of the old trouble. At that time I went to a faithful practitioner and in four treatments this was overcome.
I have been enjoying the best of health since, and we have had many demonstrations of the power of Truth in our home aside from my healing. My husband has quit using tobacco, something he had tried in vain to do at different times. Now he says he has no desire to use it in any form. Christian Science has also been a help to our son and his wife in many ways, and to others in whom we are interested. It has been proven to me many times that divine Love will meet our every need.
How thankful we should be that there was one with such purity of thought as enabled her to bring about this practical understanding of the Bible and become the means of bringing it to others, showing mankind that healing can be accomplished now just as in the time of Jesus. To say that I am thankful to God and grateful to Mrs. Eddy is but a weak way of expressing my sense of indebtedness; but I hope to live each day the life that one should live who professes to be a Christian Scientist, and thus show my appreciation of what Truth has done for me. It helps us so much to understand more about the Bible in its true meaning, to overcome so many things that otherwise would be impossible, and gives us a freedom that without it we would never have known. I hope my testimony may help some one, for surely God has been a God of love to me. I prize my text-book and what little I know of Christian Science more than gold.— Independence, Kan.
