A few years ago, after suffering from stomach and bowel disorder for years, I had a very acute attack and was obliged to take to my bed. The attending physician pronounced the trouble ulceration of the stomach and bowels. For three weeks no nourishment passed my lips, but the vomiting and retching continued and I became thin and emaciated. Our physician advised a consultation and called in four different doctors, who agreed that everything had been done which medical skill could suggest, and said all that was left was to make the end as painless as possible, for it was only a question of a few hours. I came partly out of a stupor produced by morphine, and with what strength I had left asked my husband to get help for' me in Christian Science. Why I asked for it neither myself nor my family knew, for we had always ridiculed it whenever we heard it mentioned, and knew nothing of it.
However, my husband did not hesitate, although it was in the middle of the night, but went two miles after a Christian Science practitioner, who came back with him and immediately gave me a treatment. Within half an hour I felt perfectly quiet and peaceful and fell into a natural sleep for the first time in weeks. The practitioner came again the next night and remained until morning, and when leaving told the nurse to give me anything I wanted to eat. From then on I ate everything set before me. In three days I was up and dressed, and the fourth day walked across the room alone. The practitioner called every day for a while, as there were several complications to be overcome. In ten days my husband drove me to town. I gained rapidly, and now weigh more than I have for twenty years. My health is good, and there has been no return of the trouble.
We have had other demonstrations in the family, and they have caused us to be more grateful all the time for finding Christian Science before it was too late. One of our sons, fourteen years old, had a very painful eye. A specialist pronounced the sight destroyed by an ulcer. He gave us three prescriptions, with instructions to be closely followed every half-hour, and said that perhaps he might be able to save the sight with an operation, but not unless we followed his instructions to the letter. After leaving his office, instead of having the prescriptions filled I took the boy to the Christian Science practitioner, and treatment was given him. In the morning the boy saw me standing three feet away from him. When his eye had been tested the day before he could not see an electric light held right in front of it.
