Christian Science has so changed my life that when I look back on what I went through without it I am truly grateful to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and to others who have so lovingly helped me. During the early part of the war I served in France, but was invalided home in the summer of 1915, a nervous wreck. I hardly knew what it meant not to have a headache, due, so I was told by an army surgeon, to defective eyesight. For a whole year I was given what is termed in the army '"home service," during which time I visited numerous hospitals in England, generally becoming more dissatisfied with life. In the early part of 1917 I had the opportunity of going out to the Indian army, which I accepted chiefly because I was told by the medical profession the trip would do me so much good. I sailed for Bombay, my station eventually being Peshawar. After one month I was ordered away from this place by the medical officer of the regiment and I found myself in the hills on account of the better climate. The result of this move was only to increase my sickness and in the end I was "boarded" out of India altogether, to South Africa.
I arrived at Natal on October 29, 1917, and there a kind friend introduced me to Christian Science, at a time when I was anxious for help, having become assured of the utter failure and uselessness of materia medica. I was suffering from chronic fever, suspected tuberculosis, and general debility. From that day to the present time I can truthfully say fever has had no sway over me, in fact I cannot remember having an attack and, needless to say, the other ills have been completely overcome. Now when discord starts to try me I find the means of defense always at hand and know that in the spiritual creation headaches and other ills do not exist, since God made man in His image and likeness. Although I have had a great deal of resentment to work against I have been able to do it with the aid of Science.
The church services I find most comforting. Many times I have gone into a place of worship in the old teaching only to come out more depressed, and tired of everything. Today when I enter a Christian Science church I do not feel that I must behave differently there than when outside the church, for one must be daily striving to live it, hence the practical side of Christian Science. No matter where one is, Truth meets every need. My one desire is to live nearer the teachings of Christian Science every hour of the day. I can never be grateful enough.— London, England.
