For years previous to my entry into Christian Science I had been filled with a heartfelt desire to be of service to suffering humanity; and considering the healing of the sick most needful, I took up the study of medicine. Later, I practiced this art of healing with unusual success. Since then I have learned it was love for mankind and the joy of being of service which did most of the healing, for drugs were used in but very small quantities.
When Christian Science found me, thirteen years ago, I was actively engaged in the accident insurance business, and practiced medicine for the reasons stated above. On the eve of taking the necessary steps to dispose of our home, in order that I might raise funds needed for further medical study, a member of my family was laid low by hemorrhages and convulsions, which resisted every attempt at relief through material means, but which, when a loving Christian Science practitioner was called, yielded instantly to the healing power of the Christ, Truth. This experience ended my medical pursuits then and there, and an earnest study of Christian Science filled the void thus left.
During these thirteen years I have been healed of biliousness, which was supposed to have been inherited, and which had been thought to be a part of me; glasses, which had been worn for seventeen years, have been laid aside; the desire for tobacco, which had held me in bondage since boyhood, and which previously I should have been happy to let go but could not, has been entirely destroyed. These healings were the results of reading the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy; no specific treatments were given. During the influenza epidemic we rejoiced in complete protection. Two years ago a sunstroke brought me very close to the grave; but I was rescued by the faithful help of a practitioner, whom I was too weak and exhausted to greet on her visit on a Sunday afternoon, but through whose work I was able to walk more than three miles over very muddy roads on the following morning.
