In 1926 about Easter time I was reading the bills on an advertising pillar when an invitation to a Christian Science lecture caught my attention. This was something new to me, and I at once decided to attend the lecture, which was to be given by a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The impression I gained was overwhelming, for the lecture was given in such a gentle and humble manner. It was as though I stood on holy ground. During the whole of the lecture I experienced a joy I had never before known. On leaving the hall some Christian Science literature was handed to me, and this I read over and over again. When I arrived home I took all my medicaments and threw them in the dustbin, firmly believing that it would never be necessary for me to take medicine again. I did not know, however, that my healing had already begun. But two things I did know, that I had lost my faith in medicine and found faith in God.
Since childhood I had been afflicted with a throat disease which, in spite of several changes of doctors, could not be healed. To this was added, according to the diagnosis of the doctors, chronic bronchial catarrh with severe coughing and phlegm. I also suffered for twenty years from gastric and intestinal catarrh, with constipation and partial paralysis of the bowels. This complaint had caused me a great deal of trouble. I had also suffered from hemorrhoids for the same length of time, and was to have been operated upon a short time before I began the study of Christian Science. My nerves were also shattered. I always suffered from headaches and very often from giddiness.
I have been completely healed of all the diseases mentioned above through an earnest study of Christian Science. After three visits to a loving Christian Science practitioner constipation, as well as a heart complaint, was finally healed.
