Words could never tell all the blessings that have come to me since taking up the study of Christian Science a few years ago. At that time I was in a sanitarium at Pasadena with only a piece of one lung left, according to materia medica. I had heard of Christian Science, but being a trained nurse thought it was not for me. A number of years before this a doctor in London had told me I had tuberculosis, and I had remained under the doctor's care all the time. Everything was done and tried that could be, but I did not improve and could work only part of each year. I came to California thinking the climate would help me; but it did not, and after about a year I went to bed with what promised to be my last attack. I was in bed for six weeks, not allowed to speak above a whisper, and all the serum treatments were tried; but nothing did me any good. The doctor told me I was no better and could never hope to be. I was seven thousand miles from home with very little money left.
When a friend heard the doctor's sentence she lovingly recounted the many blessings that had come to her and her family through Christian Science. It seemed such a glorious liberty compared with what I had been used to, and a few days later I asked the doctor to dismiss me from the sanitarium. At first in my study of Science and Health, things did not seem at all plain to me, but I was told not to bother about what I did not understand, and that as I read on things would get plainer; and so they did. As my understanding grew and I put into practice what I did know, there was a gradual recovery. Five treatments were given, and in less than six months I had gained considerably in weight. There has never been any return of the disease and I never had to go back to medical nursing. My every human need has been met by divine Love.
I am grateful for the physical healing, but even more grateful for the help Christian Science is to us in our daily life, and for a God whom we understand to be Love, an ever-present help at all times and under all circumstances. Through Mrs. Eddy a blessing indeed was revealed to the world. I am very grateful to her for her patient work in making plain to us God's truth, for I owe everything—peace, health, happiness —to Christian Science.— Los Angeles, Cal.
