I came to Christian Science solely for physical help at a time when everything else had failed to give relief. Having been sick for over a year with heart, stomach, and throat trouble, and having tried all kinds of material remedies without benefit. I had become hopeless of ever regaining health.
During this time, most of which had been spent in bed, Christian Science had been presented to me many times by a relative, and she had even given me the textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy but owing to a misapprehension of the real import of its teachings I did not seem to get any benefit from reading it and so continued to trust in material means for help. Finally I became confined to my bed again and was under a doctor's care. At this time a bundle of copies of the Sentinel was sent to me by my dear relative, and as I read page after page of testimonies I said that surely if God could do so much for all those people, He could do something for me; and then and there I resolved to trust Him. The next morning I began treatment, and I shall never forget the joy and peace that filled my heart as the practitioner read to me the ninety-first psalm. During the treatment I was completely freed from the terrible sense of weakness that had enveloped me so long, and at the end of two weeks was so entirely recovered that I returned to my home and family with a heart filled with gratitude for Christian Science.
In a short time fear of the high altitude began to manifest itself in a return of the heart trouble, so I called on a practitioner nearer home for absent treatment and was relieved. After some time the practitioner proposed that I stop treatment for a while, but continue to study Science and Health, saying that if I strove to put into practice what I read she was sure I would regain my complete freedom. I did so, with the result that I very soon saw I was entertaining thieves and robbers, in the form of thoughts of criticism, faultfinding, malice, resentment, and the like, and that I must get rid of them. The struggle lasted long and was severe, but finally they disappeared, leaving in their place love, joy, peace, health, —the fruit of the Spirit.
