We heard of Christian Science about seven years ago. At that time chaos seemed to reign, both morally and physically. My dear wife had been condemned by the doctors, and this thought filled my life with anguish and increased the ills I suffered from. Besides this, we had lost all confidence in a religion which we no longer practiced and by which we were no longer sustained. We had been thrown back upon ourselves, determined to do no harm to others, but very determined also not to tolerate injury from anyone else.
When Christian Science was first presented to us in the form of little pamphlets, translated into French, it awakened us from our torpor. This reading, which we did together daily, was most comforting to us, for it opened up to us new horizons, the hope of better days, and especially the knowledge of a just and good God, of whom we had been ignorant. I was able to translate for our use part of the beautiful textbook by Mrs. Eddy, whose spirit I so earnestly desired to know, through my persevering study of English, of which I knew not one word when I came into Christian Science. It was a laborious study indeed, but brought to me gradually the conviction of the nothingness of evil and of the power of prayer. Our feeble understanding, joined to an ardent faith, soon brought us the longed for relief, and our mentality, so far from satisfactory in the past, was also completely changed.
Helped by the counsels of our good and devoted practitioners we have been able to overcome, during the last six years, numberless errors which it would take too long to tell about here I shall mention only two,—the healing of the effects of eating poisonous mushrooms, and the healing of very painful and persistent sciatica. Since we have been in Science we have lived happily and trustingly in an atmosphere of serenity which it is impossible to describe, and certainly quite unlike the self–righteousness of old times.
