I am truly grateful to God, also to Mrs. Eddy for the healing through Christian Science of what the doctors claimed to be muscular rheumatism in its worst form. Since 1900 I had had an attack almost every year, lasting from three to six months. At one time I was unable to help myself for almost a year. This, however, was my last sickness. At these times I took a great deal of medicine, but nothing seemed to do me any good or relieve the pain.
At last, when almost ready to give up in despair, my wife one day came across some old copies of the Christian Science Sentinel and Journal that a friend had given us two years before. I glanced at them and cast them aside, only to pick them up later and read for a little while. I at last read them through, and more were brought to the house, all of which I read. Finally my wife bought the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I began to read it but I could not seem to understand. With perseverance, however, the book was read halfway through, and then I realized that I had found the "pearl of great price;" and I decided to see a Christian Science practitioner at once. Through her loving help the healing came. It was slow at first, but as I gained I held my ground, and to-day I am a new man, for "the former things are passed away." The literature which I once cast aside is now my daily companion, and once again we may prove that "the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner."— Chicago, Illinois.
I am grateful to add to the above testimony my word of appreciation for my husband's healing of muscular rheumatism, which attacked him periodically. Through Christian Science we have indeed proved that "Love is the liberator" (Science and Health, p. 225). At the time of my husband's healing I was suffering greatly with a condition of swelling and soreness in my lower limbs, and it was hard to get about. I had entertained a sense of injustice and resentment on account of ill treatment on the part of relatives, that was gradually embittering my disposition. After the healing of my husband, however, I seemed to take fresh hope, and through my reading and study of the Bible, the textbook, and the Christian Science literature, my physical condition improved immediately, and in my new-found happiness the sense of resentment and injustice faded away.
