It is a joyous privilege to express my gratitude for the many blessings which Christian Science has brought into my life during the last twenty years.
I had suffered constantly and intensely for several years from curvature of the spine, and every material remedy had failed. My faithful physician told me that I was dying by inches and nothing on earth could prevent it. In this hour of dark discouragement, I sought the help of a Christian Science practitioner. The first treatment gave me the first gleam of hope, and brought relief from the debility which had continued for two months. After a few more treatments my spine was quite straight, and an abnormal growth on one side of the spine had disappeared.
Then came an interesting and helpful experience. Every theory which I had ever heard had taught me that my back ached so severely because it was crooked and abnormal; and yet, one day a short time after the spine was straight, it seemed to ache as intensely as it had ever done. This puzzled me. I questioned why but could not answer. I had to find a new reason to account for the pain. I decided that the answer could be found only in the book whose teaching had changed the crooked spine into a straight and normal one through mental surgery! I therefore began at once an earnest study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and gradually I learned that it was not matter and its seeming conditions which caused pain, but the false beliefs of mortal mind. As these false beliefs were corrected, the suffering diminished until it disappeared. Not only was the spinal curvature healed, but various internal troubles, which had seemed serious and painful, left me. I had tried to feel resigned and obedient to what my minister, family, and friends had told me was God's will for me; but what joy was mine when Christian Science taught me and proved to me that God is indeed Truth, my loving heavenly Father and Mother, who not only is my Life but sustains and maintains life harmoniously and eternally.
