Like so many others, I turned to Christian Science only as a last resort. It was towards the end of the year 1910 that I first began to read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and my first healing came simply through reading this book. For years I had been troubled with hay fever. Though I had been all over Europe, to Canada, and to various climates, I had found no relief. Indeed, I had undergone four operations in the hope of removing the cause of the fever, but after the last operation I was worse than before. When someone in the family had suggested that I should try Christian Science I had refused to have anything to do with it. Yet, at last, when I seemed to have some leisure, I started to read the textbook.
It was what might be termed a surgical healing that came to me through the first reading of Science and Health, the healing of an enlarged turbinal bone that had caused the inability to breathe, especially when lying down. I was also healed of severe hemorrhages. There are no words to express the gratitude I feel for this manifestation of the Christ, "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy incarnate error" (Science and Health, p. 583). For the consciousness of good and for the peace which comes through the understanding of God, given in our textbook, I want to live, in meekness, a life that reflects more of the Christ, Truth. Since my first healings, I have had many other proofs of the protecting power of the truth, including the healing of pneumonia, a felon, and blood poisoning.— Chicago, Illinois.
