In 1922 I suffered from a nervous breakdown and gradually settled into a state of mental depression from which my physician and others seemed unable to arouse me. This condition was brought on by the passing on of a very dear son, leaving me one son who had had a weak heart from childhood. Soon this weakness began to show itself physically, and his condition became serious. After he had been doctored for five months, my own condition became so alarming that two doctors advised my husband and relatives to have me committed to a sanitarium for my own safety. This was done, and I remained there for three years and a half without any improvement, my stock of delusions seeming to grow more real.
A very dear friend of my husband, a Christian Scientist, asked him to try Christian Science. I had almost ceased to believe in anything or anyone. Owing to the hospital rules against outside treatment, all of the work of the practitioner, except two personal visits, had to be done by absent treatment. In those two visits I got my first glimpse of "a new heaven and a new earth." In four months I returned home a well woman, every so-called medical law that had been laid down for me having been proved unreal and powerless. In this short period of treatment my improvement was so rapid as often to cause comment by the doctors and nurses in the hospital.
Imagine the joy on the Sunday morning when my husband came to takeme home, not only for myself but for him and for my son! We began to attend church services regularly on Sunday mornings, and to study the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. It is now four years since my healing. I have joined one of the branch churches and find it a pleasure to share in the distribution work. Everything is harmonious in our home. My son is greatly improved in health and goes to business every day. I am grateful to the practitioner who so lovingly helped me, and to Christian Science, because I find it not only a practical but a satisfying religion.— New York, New York.
