Twenty-nine years ago I was sick and discouraged. Doctors of different schools were unable to help me out of what they pronounced the last stages of Bright's disease. A kind, honest physician told my parents that there was nothing known to medical science that could touch my case, adding that one kidney was gone and the other affected; that, in fact, it was the worst case he had ever seen. For seven months I was under the care of a nurse day and night, being five months of that time in a helpless condition. I then realized that I needed God more than aught else, and the thought was constantly uppermost that God was too just to let me meet the experience of death, which seemed inevitable, without my knowing Him better. I also had a great desire to help those who were doing their utmost to help me and, in some way, express to them my love. This, I learned later, was preparing the soil of my thought for the seed of Truth, which soon came to me in Christian Science, through a friend who understood its availability to heal the sick.
The first time I took up "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, it opened at page 113 and I saw these words: "God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter." With great eagerness I grasped the meaning of the words, and it brought me so much peace and joy that I wanted to know all that the book contained. The healing was gradual but complete, except for one symptom which continued until I detected an erroneous mental picture lurking in thought, causing fear of a return of the disease, which, however, never did return. The symptom mentioned also disappeared; I never knew just when, but it was during a period when I was working to meet and destroy other errors in thought which Truth was uncovering. I have experienced many other healings, mental, moral, and physical.
I want to prove my gratitude to God for the Commandments; for Christ Jesus and his steadfast allegiance to divine Love; and for our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, for her purity, obedience, courage, and strength in giving to this age her inspired discovery.— Waterport, New York.
