Some fifteen years ago my attention was attracted to the physical healing attributed to Christian Science, but for about five years I gave it little thought except when some miracle in healing, as I then termed it, came to my notice. At last I began to read the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and the more I read the more I believed that it contained a great truth; but I could not understand it. The book was laid aside, only to be taken up again, for I knew there was something in it that I wanted and needed.
During all these years I suffered from many seemingly incurable diseases, and physicians could give me no permanent relief. I drifted from bad to worse and was a sinner in every sense of the word. Thinking that God was punishing me, I tried to reconcile myself to the inevitable, but all conditions, physical, mental, and financial, became worse, until finally self-destruction was contemplated. One night I came home fully convinced that my family and myself would be better off if I were out of the way, and was trying to get up enough courage to end it all, when suddenly the thought came to me to read Science and Health; so I once more began to read it, this time more earnestly than ever. Understanding then came, and the great truth dawned upon me that God is Love, and that man is God's reflection, made in His image and likeness; also that I could not lay down my life, for it was not mine to lay down, but God's. From that moment I was a different person, and there came the realization that through obedience to divine Love I would be able to work out my own salvation.
I was faithful in the study of Christian Science and in attending Sunday morning services, but after about three months had elapsed chemicalization set in. While out driving in an automobile I became suddenly blind and sick, and for a few moments lost control of myself; but realizing the truth and knowing God's ever present help in such cases, I drove the car back to the store and went home, only to find the house locked up and my family away. For a moment it seemed as if I would lose my mind, and my first thought was to take medicine; but then it was clear that I could not serve two masters, So I lay down and began read Science and Health. I was soon asleep, and awakened several hours later perfectly healed. I knew that in passing through this ordeal my mentality had been cleansed and purified.
