It is my desire to bring before the public what Christian Science has meant to me for the last eighteen years. When it was presented to me I was quite young, having had very little experience. I had always been taken care of and was rather spoiled. Some difficulties, however, had seemed to make my home a prison. I was therefore glad of the opportunity to go to another country, and to a certain degree I felt satisfied.
One day it came to me to go to see a friend of my mother. This lady told me about Christian Science. I was a very healthy girl, interested in and fond of my work; so I was not at all in need at the time, except of knowing the truth of Being. A short time after hearing of Christian Science I was taken ill with a severe cold, but was very quickly healed by a Christian Science practitioner. Later on, I had an attack of giddiness and nausea. One morning I could not go to my work because of it. I was a little frightened, but my thought went out to Christian Science. At that time I could not study our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, for I did not know English. But a friend had given me a copy of the Christian Science Quarterly, and the first lesson in it was entitled "God." I looked up all the Bible passages in that lesson, and after that I looked to God, asking to be shown if Christian Science was the truth. I do not know how many minutes I prayed thus, but I felt much better. I arose, put on my coat and hat, and went downtown for lunch. In the afternoon I went to my working place, and the people there looked at me laughingly, believing I had only been lazy. For a fortnight I every now and then had the feeling of giddiness, but the fear had left me, and since that time the illness has never returned.
Since then I have studied Christian Science, and through that study alone I have come to know English. One ailment that troubled me severely at that time seemed to be incurable, and I was told by someone who observed my suffering that I must be patient—that I could not expect ever to be delivered from that trouble. Nevertheless, I very often got wonderful help through Christian Science treatment, and I am now grateful for all the lessons I have had through that experience. I can to-day testify to a perfect healing of the difficulty.
