In 1915, I turned to Christian Science, hoping it would heal me of nervous prostration, from which I had been suffering for about six months. I was engaged in the practice of osteopathy when the nervous breakdown occurred. As the weather was extremely warm, my fellow physicians advised a cooler climate; so I went north, where I stayed in a sanatorium for eight weeks. Altogether I remained away for about three months, and felt much better. Immediately upon return to my home city, however, a relapse took place and discouragement followed. Weeks and months dragged wearily on, until one day I met an old friend who had become a student of Christian Science. While I was spending a weekend in her home, the subject of Christian Science was discussed at length, with the result that I purchased the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. An eager study of this book was begun, followed shortly by a more systematic study, using the Bible and the Quarterly. I also began attending the Christian Science services.
The healing was very gradual, because of the mental turmoil which was taking place. I knew that to be healed through Christian Science was to acknowledge failure in the system of treatment I had spent much time and money acquiring. In other words, my profession would have to be cast aside. My source of supply seemed about to be wiped out. But when this distressing thought seized me, I found relief in the passage from Science and Health (p. 494), which I read on the church wall and memorized, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need." At the close of a Sunday service, some nine months later, I suddenly realized that I was healed. Not long after this, all anxiety as to the seeming loss of supply through the giving up of a once cherished profession passed away. Many other healings have been experienced since that time, pyorrhea, influenza, grippe, asphyxiation by escaping gas, and many other discordant conditions having yielded to the truth.
I am so grateful that in Christian Science we have an ever ready, unfailing weapon with which to overcome each adverse circumstance. My gratitude also goes out to Mrs. Eddy, who, through her clear, spiritual thinking was able to write Science and Health, and to give us the Christian Science organization with The Mother Church and its branch churches, the periodicals,—all the various activities of the organization provided for the help of mankind. I am grateful for the Manual of The Mother Church, which, if obeyed in letter and spirit, guides and protects the individual as well as the organization from the rocks and shoals of error.
