I feel the time has come for me to tell a little of what Christian Science has done for me and been to me in the twenty-four years it has been my comfort, healer, and guide, freeing me greatly from the bondage of fear by the understanding of the truth of being and the allness of God, good.
My mother had long been an invalid and great sufferer, and when given up by both schools of physicians was led to attend a Christian Science lecture. The next day she bought "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and read it through. Then I also took it and read it through, feeling, as did my mother, that a great truth and understanding, hitherto unknown, had come to us; and from that time to this I have never depended on materia medica, and have been relieved from much of old theology that was obscure and worthless. In a few years my mother was completely healed of her trouble; and by the aid of Christian Science practitioners I have been healed of typhoid fever, appendicitis, and inflammatory rheumatism. Frequently recurring headaches are now unknown and forgotten; and many troubles that never had a chance to manifest themselves seriously were met and destroyed by knowing the truth and thus destroying the error.
Shortly after coming into Science I went to live in a community where tradition was worshiped above everything else. Anything new, advanced, or progressive was not given much thought; and I, being young in Science, found myself shut away from much I deemed sacred and worth while. In those years The Christian Science Journal and Christian Science Sentinel did very much to keep the truth ever before me, and to keep me in touch with its unfoldment. My greatest joy was in using my knowledge in helping to bring out the good, harmonious, and beautiful in everything I entered into in the eighteen years I lived there,—in my gardens, in civic and club work, and in helping to make a city beautiful, in all of which was manifested wonderful success.
