I should like to express my thankfulness for Christian Science, which has helped me to discard homeopathy, to which I had been a slave for ten years. It was no easy matter to give up the tiny pills which had seemed to cure my rheumatism, as well as a couple of other complaints. When in the autumn of 1924 I began to attend the Christian Science services, it was not for the healing of sickness, but for the sake of finding the answer to some religious questions which had never been satisfactorily answered for me either by the state church or by any other denomination. In Christian Science I found the answers to these questions, and consequently felt exceedingly satisfied and happy; but in spite of this, when I heard the testimonies of healing from sickness, although I could not help thinking there must be some truth in them, I felt quite satisfied with matters as they were, and decided to keep to my old methods, which had seemed so satisfactory.
In 1925, however, my faith in homeopathy received a severe shock. A near relative who was ill, and who had been under allopathic doctors without result, on my recommendation turned to homeopathy for help. One means after another was tried, but the patient got worse and worse, till in despair we went to a Christian Science practitioner. During the conversation she asked me how I was. and I answered that I was well, and told about my homeopathic treatment. The practitioner answered, "You believe that those small pills can help you; how much more then can God, the creator of the whole universe, help you." It then became clear to me that God, the infinite divine Principle, is the only real source of power. I felt very thankful that I could go away with quite another view of life. I decided to give up the medicines to which I had been so faithful. I had always kept them at hand: the one that seemed most important to me I always carried with me in my hand bag. Some may think that it would not be difficult to give up such pills, but for me it was a great struggle.
One morning, about fourteen days after the above-mentioned visit to the practitioner, I felt I had caught a cold. Being afraid of my old complaint, catarrh, I thought I had better take the medicine I had by me as a preventive for colds. I mixed it. and was about to take it. There was a great struggle, but by the afternoon I had overcome the temptation and put away the medicine forever. Later, I caught sight of those tubes I had hidden away at the bottom of my hand bag. I took them out, and was able to throw them away without the slightest hesitation. It is now over three years since those small pills ceased to be my tyrants, and both kidneys and stomach act well without them. I should like to add that I was put on a diet and in 1910 forbidden to drink milk both by the allopathic and the homeopathic doctors. I now eat anything that is set before me, drink milk, and am in splendid health.
