I first heard of Christian Science in 1899. A copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was handed to me. I glanced through it casually, and concluded that it was of little use to me, although I was in great need. In 1910, as the head of a family I again had Christian Science offered as the means of healing my wife, who had been under medical treatment for more than three years for chronic appendicitis and ulcers of the stomach. In one month she was completely and permanently healed. In October of that year I sustained a hernia as the result of an accident. Though sorely tempted to have surgical treatment I yielded to the urgent appeals of my wife and called on a Christian Science practitioner. In four days the protrusion had disappeared, never to return.
Since these healings Christian Science has been the only recourse when discords have intruded into our happy household. The so-called diseases of childhood were overcome without serious difficulty; typhoid fever, which held our son in bondage, was healed through Christian Science treatment. In 1917 a severe attack of acute indigestion, brought on by giving in to a fit of temper, yielded to the truth. I am especially grateful for this experience, for though I had been a student of Science for several years I had not learned the lesson of controlling hasty temper, impatience, and irritability. This experience proved to me the truth of the sentence on page 574 of Science and Health, "The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares." After four days of intense suffering and when the temptation came to call for medical help, I affirmed aloud that I would fight it out in Christian Science. I was instantaneously relieved, and within a few days completely healed.
I am grateful for having taken the progressive steps in Christian Science: membership in a branch church and in The Mother Church, class instruction, and work in the various departments of our branch church activities.— West Hartford, Connecticut.
