After receiving so many benefits through Christian Science, it seems that I should express my gratitude for some of them. I was healed through Christian Science, in one treatment, of acute and chronic inflammation of the bladder and kidneys from which I had suffered since childhood. The doctors had done all they could for me, but their treatments were, if anything, worse than the disease. I had reached a state where I longed to die and thought of suicide often, but was afraid to try it. I knew nothing about Christian Science, but when my need was greatest there was brought into the house a magazine containing a remarkable testimony of healing, which seemed to me so wonderful I remarked that if Christian Science could do so much for one person, it certainly could do something for me, and that I intended to give it a trial.
When I was alone in the house a few days later, and suffering a little more than usual, I crawled downstairs to the telephone and calling up a Christian Scientist asked her if she thought I could be helped. She said I could, and gave me the name of a practitioner, to whom I went for treatment a few days later. I left her house a perfectly well woman. It seemed well-nigh impossible for me to get there, as it exhausted me to walk even a short distance and my back ached terribly. The next day I walked sixty blocks, down to the city and back home, a walk no one here takes very often, but I was not tired in the least. I weighed very little when I went for treatment, but in less than two months I had gained so much that my friends hardly knew me. In the ten years since my healing I have never had a backache, and there has not been the slightest return of the disease spoken of.
Accepting the practitioner's word, when she told me that man's senses are spiritual, I put off glasses that night after wearing them for fifteen years on account of a structural defect of the eyes and nearsightedness, and have never had them on again. A bad case of granulation of the lids was overcome at the same time. I had been in bondage all my life to terrible headaches, the slightest thing bringing on an attack which generally kept me in bed too sick to raise my head for two or three days, but I had treatment for this trouble later, and have never had the slightest headache since, although I have gone through severe trials.
