When Christian Science was first presented to me, I was in the depths of despair. For three years I had suffered from nervous prostration, insomnia, and a terrible fear of insanity that hung over me like a dark cloud night and day. During this time I tried materia medica and osteopathy, and spent two years in the West in the hope of regaining my health, but all to no avail. Brought up in an orthodox Christian home, I had been taught to study the Bible, to work in the church, and to pray to God whenever any problem confronted me.
But when my health failed and in my extremity I sought the help which I so sorely needed and which I read so much about in the Bible, I found that my prayers and those of my friends failed to relieve me. I knew that no human power or means was adequate to heal this terrible mental disorder. Although I prayed continually there was no response to my efforts, I was therefore greatly discouraged and became like those "having no hope, and without God in the world."
Then I heard of Christian Science and sought the help of a practitioner. I soon found what I had been praying for all my life: God who heals disease as well as sin, God who is an ever present help. I secured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and shall never forget the great joy that came to me when I read, on pages 205 and 206 of this textbook, "When we fully understand our relation to the Divine, we can have no other Mind but His," and the truth dawned on my thought that there was really no mind in matter to be lost, no brain to be deranged. With the loving help of a practitioner and my own study I was completely healed.
