For eighteen years I was a sufferer from what is known to the medical profession as hay-fever and asthma. As the years passed, the asthmatic condition became so bad it was wearing me out, and while recognizing that the many physicians to whom I went were doing all they could, I also knew that this is one of the diseases for which materia medica has no cure. Almost every known remedy had been tried and even an operation performed, but this only seemed to aggravate the condition. At times the only way I could get rest was by having hypodermic injections, and a physician came nightly to perform this task.
I tried the mountains, lakes, and seashore, moving from one part of the country to another in search of that which it seemed impossible to find—health. After all these wanderings I turned ray face toward the place from which I had started years before, and in my home city found that for which I had been looking. Seven years ago Christian Science was presented to me, and though knowing nothing about it, I was willing to try anything, so after some deliberation placed myself in the hands of a Christian Science practitioner. Through her faithful work, though not healed at once, I was helped so much that it gave me courage to go on, and in a comparatively short time I was a free man.
I thank God for our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, who was so good and so spiritually minded that she was able to discern through the mist of years the great truth taught by the Master, and who had courage and love enough for God and man to enable her to make her discovery known to all men. My gratitude to her can be expressed only in daily deeds, not words.
