After living twenty-one years in Christian Science, I should like to relate my experience when coming to it for help. I was in a very bad physical state. For a year or more previous to that time not a day had passed that I had not spent at least two thirds of it on a couch. The nights were generally sleepless. I was consulting a doctor and taking several kinds of medicine daily, without getting any relief. My friends were looking for me to pass away, and I fully expected to, although I rebelled greatly. I wanted to live. There seemed to be a complication of troubles.
At this time Christian Science was brought to my notice by the healing of a neighbor. I sent for a practitioner. She came in the evening, and requested me to go to her home in the morning. I told her I would if I could. She said she thought I could; and I did. I had eaten nothing for three days. I thought food hurt me. After she left I ate some supper, slept well that night, and was ready for breakfast. I was healed of all fear of what I ate, in that one treatment. Weakness seemed to be troubling me; and so my great desire was for strength. I almost envied the practitioner the strength she manifested. The weakness was overcome so that I was soon doing all my own housework,—washing, ironing, and all. The fear of death was overcome to some extent. This enabled me to bring relief instantaneously to a dear friend who had a similar experience to my own. There have been some dark times, but strength has come always at the right time. I am trying each day to know more of the Life which is eternal.
I should like to testify to the healing of hatred, as I had thought before coming into this beautiful truth of Christian Science that I was justified in hating one who I thought had wronged me. I was healed through that love which comes from God. I hereby give expression to my gratitude for a God who is Life and Love; also to Him for giving us the dear woman, Mrs. Eddy, for a Leader; and for a dear teacher and loving friends who have helped me on my journey forward.— Terre Haute, Ind.
