After devoting several years, which to mortal sense seemed the best years of my life, to conscientious work as a materia medica nurse, I found myself struggling with the belief of a false law which was manifested in many phases of error. The argument was made very real "that there was very little if anything that could be done for one who was worn out in such service." After consulting many physicians and hearing the differing opinions of each and the usual verdict that I could live but a short time, possibly a few months at the best, I found and proved in this seeming hour of great need that "'man's extremity is God's opportunity." The comfort and peace which came with the unfoldment to my thought of this beautiful truth, as I earnestly studied the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, is something which I shall never cease to be very grateful for, and through this understanding I have been healed of many physical manifestations of disease, as well as erroneous concepts of God and man. Severe attacks of quinsy, tonsillitis, colonitis, neuritis, pneumonia, grip, severe colds, ptomaine poisoning, internal cancer, cuts, bruises, and burns have all yielded and have been entirely overcome by understanding the law of harmony, God's law, which is the only law.
On page 142 of the textbook, Mrs. Eddy makes this statement: "God being All-in-all, He made medicine; but that medicine was Mind. It could not have been matter, which departs from the nature and character of Mind, God. Truth is God's remedy for error of every kind, and Truth destroys only what is untrue." My faith in material medicines received quite a shock when I discovered that a dose of sterile water could be administered hypodermically to patients and they would sleep and enjoy a perfectly good night's rest because they believed they had been given the usual soporific dose. In my own experience, when I seemed to be suffering so intensely and was taking medicines for relief, I used to wonder how a drug taken through the mouth could retain its effect by the time it reached the intestines, where my chief difficulty seemed to be. When a mouthful of food is supposed to undergo such a variety of changes in the progress of digestion, then what becomes of the little pill, which is prescribed for the healing of colonitis or intestinal cancer, by the time it reaches the colon? I used to argue with the physicians along this line and they would tell me that I knew too much. On page 417 of the textbook, Mrs. Eddy tells us to "give sick people credit for sometimes knowing more than their doctors."
I am very grateful for the healings which both my husband and I have received. We were able to see the unreality of the belief of separation when those near and dear to us passed on. We have proved by this truth that there is no lack in divine Mind and when we have been called upon to meet the argument of lack of supply in any way we have proved many times that, as our Leader says on page 225 of Science and Health, "Love is the liberator." I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Eddy for a demonstrable understanding of the truth, and for the periodicals, which were divinely inspired.— Mason City, Iowa.
