I first heard of Christian Science about fifteen years ago in London, and though I received help on one or two occasions and read a little of the literature at times, I did not understand it or turn to it wholly until I came to a place in my life where I knew that unless I had its help I could not go on.
It was about four years ago that I found myself suffering from a mental and physical breakdown. So black the clouds seemed round about me, and so hopeless the future, that I used to fear my reason would go; and I was full of nameless fears both for myself and for my family. When I was in this dark and terrified state, I remembered that Christian Science promises deliverance from every form of evil, and I knew that this was my only hope. I therefore decided to try to gain the understanding which brought such joy and peace into the faces of the few Scientists I then knew.
I earnestly read the Bible, together with the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and all the other Christian Science literature I could get hold of; but I seemed long in understanding it, and the way was very dark. I remember thinking that I seemed to be climbing a steep and rugged mountain path. Behind me were pain and gloom and darkness, in front, sun crowned heights which I could scarcely imagine; but gleams of light began to come to my understanding, and this encouraged me to press on.
