Filled with desire to help suffering humanity I gave up the teaching profession and became a nurse. After a few years of practical nursing, this profession did not satisfy me any longer. I saw so much innocent suffering that was not healed, so much affliction that was not alleviated. Gradually I came to the conviction that God was neither the originator nor the sender of sickness. However, at that time I did not dare to express this thought to any one; I only prayed for more light. Then Christian Science came into my life. I took it up as a dry sponge absorbs water. This was what I had unconsciously been longing for. I soon recognized that here is comfort and healing for every one.
Ten years have passed, and during that time I have had wonderful experiences. Frequent pains in the stomach quickly disappeared through my reading of Christian Science literature. Besides other things, I was also freed from pain in the back, a disposition to sprain my ankle, and blood poisoning. From childhood I had suffered from hay fever every summer, an ailment for which physicians know no curatives, but only palliatives. The healing was slow. I had to learn to understand that there is but one cause; that sickness is never real, either in the present or in the past; that it exists only as a belief in human thought.
Shortly after I became interested in Christian Science a five-year-old niece was wonderfully healed. The child had been sick for some weeks, and seemed like a tiny light about to be extinguished. One day the parents wept, being at a loss to know what to do. I asked them to let me care for the child. The transportation was effected with the greatest care, and I at once asked a dear Christian Science practitioner for help. The practitioner came and tried to encourage the child, who only said no, she wanted to die. For the first time, however, she was able to sleep at night, although for three days she refused all food except tea. Then she began to say, "I have a pain here, and here, let us tell it to God." Through their affirmation of the truth the pain would disappear, so that absolute confidence in God was awakened in the child. After a fortnight she could hardly be recognized: her cheeks filled out and took on color, and she was vivacious and joyous.
