Christian Science brings healing and comfort; and if mankind but realized this, all would seek to share the benefits it brings.
It had long seemed to me that there was something lacking in the teachings of the church to which I belonged, for we had Jesus' definite words, "These signs shall follow them that believe . . . they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover;" yet this was not being done. So when I heard of Christian Science, it seemed natural that a correct understanding of God should result in the cure of disease. I read the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, but without getting much meaning out of it.
It was not till I was suffering very much from chronic neuritis that I was sufficiently humble to ask for help. A talk with a dear Christian Scientist comforted me, and her parting words, lovingly and confidently spoken, "Nothing can hurt God's child," gave me hope. She had promised to give me treatment, and just a week later I awoke one morning with a wonderful realization of God as the only Life. I had thought I had always believed that God was Life, but I had not seen before what that meant. I felt I was healed, although the pain left me only gradually. It was an Easter morning when this light came, and for the first time I was really grateful to Christ Jesus for his wonderful work in overcoming death, and I saw why Christian experience is spoken of as a warfare—the constant effort to prove that God, good, is the only Life and the only power. From that day my health improved, and it is now normal.
