Christian Science was first presented to me by a friend over six years ago, when I was in much distress. I could not bear my weight on my left foot; in fact, for a year I could not step without severe pain in one side. Adhesion of the bowels and chronic constipation kept me in misery for about two years. At this time I had undergone an operation for the bowel trouble and appendicitis. Two of the best surgeons told my husband that in less than three weeks I would need another operation, as the adhesions did not heal in the way they had expected.
When this dear friend came to visit me one afternoon, she found me in despair. She asked my husband and me to attend the Wednesday evening meeting at a Christian Science church that same evening with her. We accepted the invitation. The following Friday she took us to a practitioner. My husband was very anxious for me to be healed, as he too was in great need of physical help at that time. He had spent a large sum of money for physicians and at a sanitarium for a nervous breakdown. Neither my husband nor I doubted one word that was said to us in explanation of Christian Science by the practitioner. I was instantaneously healed in one treatment of the adhesions, of constipation (from childhood), and nervousness.
When the practitioner lovingly explained that God is Love (which I had sought to know for many years), I thought that hour was the most blessed and peaceful one I had ever experienced. Fear was completely removed from my consciousness, and I slept peacefully all that night, a thing I had not done for over a year. Movement of the bowels has been perfect during the six years since. When the practitioner explained to me that God's law is the law of love, and is always operative, I was so grateful and overjoyed that it existed for me and mine that a great load seemed to fall away from me. I was as light-hearted as a little child.
