After reaping innumerable benefits from the study of Christian Science, I feel that it is only right to add mine to the many testimonies of gratitude. Trained as a nurse, I found, after about twelve years of nursing experience, that my faith in medicine and doctors was leaving me. Faith in God went also, when prayer for the life of one I cared for was seemingly unanswered. Bereft of faith in both matter and Spirit, life lost all interest for me. Added to this, my health seemed to be failing, and I looked forward with dread to the time when I should be physically incapable of work.
After twenty-one years of nursing I heard of Christian Science from the relative of a patient. I was then attending, and was struck with the purity of its teaching. Having just returned from witnessing the horrors of a world-wide war. and being tired of the sight of so much sorrow and suffering, I saw in Christian Science the offer of something better than I had known hitherto. A month or two later I obtained a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and started to read it one evening. I read for many hours, lifted above a world of matter to a region of dazzling purity. No thought of physical healing came to me, but the next morning I found that a physical trouble of many years' standing had left me. For a few months all my old interest in life returned, and I thought that sorrow was a thing of the past; but in one year I lost all that to me made life worth living.
For the next three years I seemed to be denied all that would help to contribute to my happiness; but feeling that my only hope lay in Christian Science, I clung to it as a drowning man clings to his last hope. One day, while thinking and wondering why my life had turned out to be what it was, I realized that unconsciously I was looking to persons and places for good; hence all failed me. From that time I turned resolutely away from matter and looked only to God. In about a year's time my surroundings were more congenial. I became a member of a branch church and a class student, also a member of The Mother Church. For some years I had been wanting to give up my nursing, and now work in Science was offered me. This I accepted, feeling that it was a step out of materiality.
