Sixteen years ago Christian Science found me dwelling in the midst of materialism, unhappy, unjust, ungrateful, unloving, resentful, poverty-stricken, hopeless, Godless. The coming into my life of this glorious truth was like a ray of sunshine in some dark and lonely cavern.
My first healings in Christian Science came as a result of thinking, speaking, reading the truth with no thought of a treatment and no arguing against disease or sin. I was in bondage to two chronic ailments which I had endured for seven years. Without the aid of a practitioner, these difficulties vanished into their native nothingness while I was reading the inspired pages of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy.
I was a victim of fear of almost every name and nature; my hopes and expectations were palsied by it. My capacity was limited and dwarfed. I was experiencing the harrowing ravages of painful apprehension for the future, the expectation of evil, anxiety, solicitude, alarm, dread; but Christian Science came to me with its compassionate appeal and cast out fear, canceling its penalties by supplanting the false with the true. There is an angel or God-sent thought to reverse and overthrow every evil suggestion, or earth-born thought.
