Early in 1914 my attention was called to Christian Science by a friend who was becoming interested in it. I had read widely and attended many churches seeking for a deeper religious experience and was always dissatisfied with what I found;but with the first article I read on Christian Science I knew that I had found the truth I had been seeking since childhood. I recognized the truth, but was not quite ready to sacrifice certain social and church associations for it. For the time I tried to lay Christian Science away until a more "convenient season;" but in my immediate need divine Love was forced more imperatively upon my notice. Very soon there came a great upheaval in my life and both unhappiness and ill health poured in like a flood. As I lay in a hospital recuperating from an operation, my thought turned to God in deep and sincere desire for something more spiritual and satisfying than I had ever known. Still, I was not entirely weaned from worldly and frivolous tendencies, and I suffered for many months before I was ready to forsake them and turn whole-heartedly to Christian Science.
Six weeks after the operation I was back in the hospital in a more serious condition than before. This seemed like a recurrence of appendicitis, and so puzzled the physicians that they could offer me nothing but another operation. I was unwilling to undergo another experiment of that kind, so in a few weeks I was dismissed from the hospital on the verge of a nervous breakdown and for months suffered from attacks of what the doctors later diagnosed as colitis. There seemed nothing to expect but a life of invalidism.
My husband, a physician, and his associates had told me that there was nothing they could do for me, so I went to a Christian Scientist and asked him if Christian Science could help a case like mine. I was told that it could heal anything and everybody when rightly applied. This gave me such a feeling of assurance that I began the study at once, and from almost the first day experienced the most amazing results from the application of the truth to whatever error presented itself—all except the attacks for which I had taken up this study. These attacks persisted, but came at longer intervals and were less violent. Once I wrote to a practitioner for help, and I was up and about in four days, instead of two or three weeks. This was improvement enough to cause much rejoicing.
