About sixteen years ago Christian Science came my way. I was then almost a wreck, and all material remedies had failed to help me. From childhood I had been delicate and had a chronic stomach trouble, supposed to be inherited. I was also susceptible to very bad colds. For many years I suffered from neuralgia in my head, not a day passing without pain, in spite of massage and so forth. I had rheumatism in my arms and shoulders, which prevented me from writing and sewing as before. Everything had been done to relieve my suffering, through massage and cures at home and abroad, and I had taken so many powders that my heart was affected. Two years of sleeplessness had made me very nervous, and life was a burden in spite of having everything to make me happy and contented.
When my little boy was born I had thrombosis, and for weeks was not able to move or walk; and I suffered from its effects until Christian Science came to me. But my extremity was God's opportunity. When I was receiving treatment for other problems this trouble disappeared, and I was able to cycle and leave off the elastic stocking which the doctor had said I would always have to wear. I came in contact with a Christian Scientist whose humility and gratitude for her own wonderful healing became a channel for divine Love, and I was instantaneously healed of the headaches, and the lumps on my neck disappeared into their native nothingness. Gradually the old problems were solved, and after about a year I could truly say that I was a new creature, full of life and activity.
A few years ago a great sorrow came to me, but the study of Christian Science helped me to know that there is no death or separation between God's children. More than for the physical healing I am grateful for the understanding of God as divine Love and Principle, and my gratitude is great to Mrs. Eddy, who had the courage to stand alone and declare the truth to a world that derided her, until she demonstrated the Christ-healing of the sick, and people began to be convinced that it was true religion she taught and practiced.— Stockholm, Sweden.
