"It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." It must have been God who called to me when as a young girl I decided to search for Truth. At the time I was under the care of physicians, after submitting to operations which had not helped me. Besides, I was then suffering from a severe case of anæmia and struggling with weakness, which had forced me to give up all studies and most youthful pleasures. As it was made clear to me that medical treatment could do nothing for me, the thought of a higher power, capable of rendering me efficient mentally and physically, came persistently to my consciousness. Finally the inner voice was heeded. The old treatment was discarded, and I set out to find the approach to this power. Perhaps a seed had already been sown in my thought when, as a child, I had talked with a Christian Scientist. At any rate, my search for Truth began and ended with its revelation in Christian Science.
Within a month after taking up the study of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I was able to enter upon a special course of study, relying upon the knowledge of Truth which I had gained to sustain me. This work was carried out successfully, and about a year later I found myself engaged in an enterprise which entailed much responsibility and required unusual activity. Mrs. Eddy says, "God rests in action" (Science and Health, p. 519). The understanding of this divine action, which is spiritual, and of the law back of it, gradually gave me strength. It superseded the physical law, which had demanded rest, and proved it null by supporting me in all my endeavors.
Since then I have become a wife, and a mother of three children. The children have not spent a day in bed; nor have they used any material remedies. All their difficulties have been surmounted through the application of Christian Science. Among these were fevers, deep cuts, an abscess in the ear, overcome in one treatment, and what seemed to be whooping cough, overcome in a few days. Of my own healings, aside from the internal troubles that had held me so long in bondage, I will mention influenza, which disappeared in twelve hours, an ulcerated tooth, healed in twenty minutes through a practitioner's work, after it had caused pain for two days and two nights, also pain mastered in the dentist's chair. A member of my family was healed of varicose veins and chronic indigestion through reading the textbook.
