I am very grateful to the Giver of all good for revealing Christian Science to me when it was most needed. About five years ago, after several doctors had done all they could to heal me of organic leakage of the heart and had failed, a friend sent us some copies of the Christian Science Sentinel; and although I had formerly ridiculed this Science, after I had read the literature my thought was so changed I decided to visit a practitioner to learn more of this strange yet beautiful teaching that had cast a ray of hope into my discouraged thought.
After a long talk and two or three absent treatments, I was able for the first time in many months to lift my own child, to do my washing and attend to the many other duties connected with farm life, and to do without hired help entirely, much to the surprise of my friends, who could not understand it. A long-standing case of constipation disappeared while reading the literature. I also gave birth to a perfect baby girl with very little pain at the time and none whatever afterwards, which seems marvelous, especially after seemingly suffering so much at the birth of my three other children.
Although we still have problems to meet, they are growing smaller as our understanding of the truth grows larger, which is sufficient reason for my humble expression of gratitude to our Father-Mother God. I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy and to all those who have helped me on the way; I am also grateful for membership in The Mother Church and a branch church.— Naperville, Illinois.
