I first looked into Christian Science in 1902, not for any particular healing, but because the friends into whose home town I had moved had become Christian Scientists and I wished to see what they were interested in. Before I had finished reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and while I apparently had little or no understanding of it, a lifelong stomach trouble disappeared. As I had always believed in and looked for miracles, I was very grateful for my rich find; and I have proved it to be a remedy for all ills.
For several years after my entrance into this new-old religion, success came to me and obstacles fell away with wonderful rapidity. At the time of the San Francisco disaster, in 1906, through my understanding of Science I went through the experience with no sense of fear; and when the fire reached my home and it was burned, divine Love guided me on and on, and not only met my every human need but gave me many luxuries besides. In traveling about at the time, while stopping in a hotel in a strange place, I was taken violently ill. At first I tried to heal myself, but getting no results I called a practitioner. It was two days and nights before any change in the condition came; but when the hold of the disease was broken, the healing came by leaps and bounds. Then, between my great delight and my anxiety to get. home, and against the advice of the practitioner, I left her too soon. After that, different ailments kept attacking me, all of which would be met for the time being only to break out in a new form, till the last was a large fibroid tumor. Three years went by, and although I was able to be about, the trouble was not removed. At last I was confined to my bed, and for many months lay so low that to the human sense matters did, indeed, look serious. But I knew only too well that material help would do no good, as no doctor could cut, drug, or rub out the mental cause of the difficulty. So when the faithful practitioner told me that she had no fear as to the outcome of the case, and the Christian Science friend in whose home I lay ill said she was willing that I should remain there, I refused to see any one save those directly interested, and awaited results. One day a friend calling remarked on the smallness of my figure as I lay in the bed, and for the first time I realized that the visible effect of the disease had disappeared. Just when it went no one knows. From that time on I began to mend and grow steadily stronger; and although with my upward climb other diseases had to be healed, a complete victory was the final reward.
To-day I am glad to say that, in gratitude for all the good which has come to me through Christian Science, I have by my understanding of it often been able to help others. I now have the honor to be a member of The Mother Church in Boston, and am a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Lewiston, Idaho. — Lewiston, Idaho.
