After many years of sickness, and just as I was able, after a severe illness, to walk out, I met an acquaintance who had been an invalid for nineteen years, who insisted on telling me how wonderfully she had been healed by Christian Science. I had never heard of Christian Science before, and being more interested in my own aches and troubles, paid little attention at first to what she said. But she kept saying over and over, "I tell you I was healed by Christian Science and I want you to try it," until 1 finally said I would think about it.
In going home on the street car I thought over what she had been trying to tell me and decided I would call on the practitioner whose name she had mentioned to see what she looked like. She proved to be a dear woman whose conversation soon convinced me that Christian Science was just what I needed, and had been looking for. In a few treatments I was cured of rheumatism and stomach trouble and started on the way from the unreal to the real, and while my progress has been slow, I have kept right on, knowing there is no other way. I have been able to overcome in a great measure a strong inclination to criticism. This has been a great comfort to me and no doubt to others. I have had the joy of helping myself and others to overcome illness and troubles of various kinds.
I have become a member of a Christian Science society and of The Mother Church in Boston, and have enjoyed the great privilege of attending services there. Words are inadequate to express my gratitude for what our dear Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, has done for all mankind; and last but by no means least, I am very thankful for our literature.— Juneau, Alaska.
