My attention was first attracted to Christian Science by seeing my wife healed in a few hours of a severe attack of pneumonia. A practitioner was called over the long-distance telephone in the evening, and in a short time my wife was better, and by morning she was perfectly free from every symptom. I was surely grateful for this healing, and began to realize that this is the truth which I had been seeking. I was so convinced of the healing power of Christian Science that I unhesitatingly destroyed the medicine I had on hand, through which I had so long sought relief.
I then started to read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and was greatly impressed with the reasonableness and logic of its statements, becoming more and more interested as I continued. When I had finished this book I was positive that I had found the truth which would prove the unreality of sickness and sin if applied correctly. But this truth was not demonstrated by me until a few years afterwards when I was suffering with a severe stomach trouble, accompanied by fear and despondency. The illness seemed so serious that I could no longer attend to my work. Help was asked from a Christian Science practitioner and relief came slowly. It was not until the following year, however, that the healing was complete.
During this period of unfoldment some understanding of the Principle of Christian Science came to me, but it was not until I ceased trying to heal a sick man and began to realize the oneness of Principle and its idea, and that man can only express what God knows, that I understood this passage from Science and Health (p. 428), "The great spiritual fact must be brought out that man is, not shall be, perfect and immortal." By clinging to the truth and rejecting the arguments of the physical senses I became conscious of my freedom; I was healed.
