Paul says, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." Through studying "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I am becoming a new creature, as old thoughts pass away, leaving me free to do greater work for God and my fellow-men; and this is bringing me more peace, joy, health, and happiness than ever before.
When I first read that wonderful book in 1912, I knew it contained what I had been seeking all my life. I read it continually for about three weeks, and then returned it to the one who had so kindly lent it. Two months later, I seemingly broke down completely, and had to be carried home. On reaching home I knew if I could have that little book I should soon be all right; but as there were objections, I stopped talking about it. I continued to grow worse, until I was sent to a sanitarium in an advanced stage of tuberculosis. The thought that God is Life stayed with me constantly. I would read the Bible, and try to remember what I had read in Science and Health. How I longed for that book, which indeed leads into all truth! But it was six years later, after having passed through many seeming ills, before I broke the bonds which were holding me from the truth; and oh, the great joy and peace I felt the first Sunday morning on entering the Christian Science church!
During the influenza epidemic I was instantaneously healed of a very severe attack. It was during this illness that I gave up the doctor and the nurse; and when the thought came to me to know and prove God, I immediately arose, dressed, and went out on the porch—completely healed. Two months later, when alone, I was taken with a hemorrhage. The thought came: "Fear hath torment; " but God is Love, and "perfect love casteth out fear." I realized I had been in torment for the past eight or ten years from a consuming fear, and that there was nothing to fear, for God is Love and ever present. Since He is Life, there is no life in blood. In two days I was up, and have not spent an hour in bed from sickness since, a period of over three years. The previous winter I had spent three months and a half in bed from similar attacks. By reading this book the second time, I was healed in about three weeks of tuberculosis, stomach disorder, and abdominal trouble, for which I had undergone an operation but received no help; in fact I was healed of every ill that I then had.
