After many years of prejudice against what I thought Christian Science to be, this prejudice vanished after visiting a family of Christian Scientists, where such love and harmony were expressed that a deep impression was made on me. A young daughter of the family instantaneously healed me of a very severe headache on the first day of my visit. I had asked her if she thought she could help me in spite of my skepticism. She replied that God could; and the healing came so swiftly and completely that I could scarcely credit my senses. These headaches were a frequent occurrence at that time, and generally lasted as long as three days.
Even after this wonderful proof of the truth of Christian Science I did not look into it until about three years later. Then the desire to find out about it came like "a still small voice," and I walked two miles in a pouring rain to obtain the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy— the same book which had been in the very room with me many times while visiting these Scientist friends, at which times I would not so much as look between the covers. Even when I went into the Reading Room to borrow the textbook I was still skeptical, and remember saying, "If it is the truth, I want to know it; but if it is not, I am sure I shall know that too." The minute I reached home I began to read, and had not read through the first two pages of the wonderful chapter entitled "Prayer" before I was convinced that I had indeed found the truth. I had not looked into Christian Science for healing, but during the next few days, simply through reading the textbook, I was healed of a chronic case of constipation of many years' standing, a condition for which I had been taking medicine every night for a long time.
That first joyful summer was filled with proofs of the truth of Christian Science, and one of the most beautiful healings that has ever come to me also came at that time. All my life I had suffered from such extreme fear during thunderstorms that it was manifested in very severe headaches, sometimes accompanied by nausea. During that summer I was quietly eating dinner with the family one day when I suddenly realized that an unusually violent electrical storm was going on and that I had not even noticed it! My joy and gratitude were so great that I could scarcely keep the tears back. This was twelve years ago, and I have never from that day had the slightest fear or physical discomfort during a thunderstorm.
