For a number of years I sought healing in Christian Science for various physical ailments, with slight success, and like many, whom I have heard make the remark after a similar experience, I thought it was "not for me," however much others might have benefited. Material means had all been exhausted before I turned to Science, which I thought was only some method of healing to replace medical treatment. The writings were obscure to me, likewise the patient explanations of practitioners. In 1918, after I had given up hope of help through Christian Science, a doctor told me that an immediate operation was the only thing to save my life, and I felt that there could be no doubt of his verdict. It was the same picture numerous others had drawn for me in times past, and was ever in my thoughts. A member of my family who had professed no interest in Christian Science prevailed upon me to give it another trial, and in two weeks a large growth was removed by the operation of divine Love alone, and I was healed.
Stomach trouble, which had been diagnosed by physicians as one of several serious things ailing me, returned shortly afterwards to prove my faith. For five years it persisted; but after the miracle of healing which I had experienced, I could not doubt, though discouragement often almost overwhelmed me. With the work of practitioners, and faithful reading and study on my own part, only temporary relief was afforded. Then the most severe attack I could remember came upon me, and in the afternoon a visit was made to the practitioner apparently without benefit. All through the night the suffering was intense. I resolved to fight it out, even though I passed on; and when morning came I called again, saying I must have help. Help came instantaneously, and my healing was complete. Then came the revelation that, many times in the past, had my faith been sufficient to have enabled me to call just once again in the face of seeming failure, my healing would have come long before. However, I rejoice now because of the long path I had to travel; for by that means God was revealed to me, and the messages of the Bible, as well as the words of our revered Leader, have become to me the living, tangible truth.
My feet no longer tremble on the brink of the precipice, but are firmly planted in Truth as all day long I rejoice because Christian Science has been given to the world. Persecution could not kill the truth nearly two thousand years ago, nor can it be overthrown to-day.
