It is now over ten years since I took up the study of Christian Science for relief from physical ills. I had never been well, in fact was suffering from almost every ill to which flesh is heir. The doctors said there was not a sound organ in my body except the heart. After the birth of my first child I was constantly taking drugs and dosing the baby with them. A serious bowel trouble and constant coughs and colds, also a stubborn disease, which the doctor said could not be cured, had made me very weak. His verdict was that I would be an invalid for life.
Besides all these things, together with the care of the child, who at the age of fourteen months had never seen a well day, I finally became ill with measles. Then and there I decided to have help from a very dear friend who is a Christian Scientist, so wrote her a letter telling all my troubles. As a result, the last ailment was overcome in four days, and the others left in a short time. The baby began to improve as my thought grew clearer through the study of Science and Health together with the Bible, which I had always loved but could not understand until I had the key to its hidden treasures.
The greatest benefits have been received at the births of my other children, five of whom were born without the help of a doctor or medical aid of any kind, reliance being placed entirely on God for my strength. I attended to their needs from the beginning, and was up and about the house by the second day, doing as usual all manner of work, including washing.
