I first heard of Christian Science some years ago. Previous to that time I had been for years in a very feeble and delicate condition of health, the doctors saying I had lung trouble. Although I did not at first come to Christian Science to be cured of this deplorable condition,— I was not sufficiently awake then as to how deplorable it was,—yet I was yearning to be released from sin and was searching for a practical religion. When I first read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I felt the sincerity and genuineness of the book; and although there was much I could not understand, it impressed me so much that I studied it with avidity.
About this time I was moving about a good deal. I went to see more than one Christian Science practitioner, and was very much impressed by the practical side of the religion. Later on, circumstances altered and drove me to seek a cure for my sickness; so I traveled a long distance to seek help from a practitioner from whom I had been having absent treatment. Soon after my arrival I attended one of the Christian Science services. I went with thoughts full of gloom and despair, thinking the world was a most detestable place to live in; and I was also full of fear. Just before the service began I got such a sense of the allness of divine Love that it was a revelation to me, and I felt as if a great weight had been lifted from me. Some time after this I received the help for which I had been looking: I was healed of both sickness and sin. Since then I have also experienced the protecting power of Christian Science under very trying circumstances.
Christian Science has brought to me a new understanding of God and man; and this understanding has given me a different point of view, with which it is hardly surprising that one should get good results. Christian Science is altering my character, and has already begun to lift burdens which I have been hugging all my life. It has unfolded to me much good; but this has involved the uncovering of much wrong, which had been passing itself off as right to my consciousness.
