For years I had known there was such an organization as the Christian Science church, but I knew nothing of its teachings. Then I was told of the healing of one whom I had long known. Later I visited in this person's home and saw evidence of a wonderful change in the lives of all the members of this family. I was sadly in need of healing, and my friends spent hours pouring into my consciousness the truth about God and man, through which their lives had been so changed. To me, the language used to express this truth was lovely; the spiritual facts stated were logical and glorious, and should have been uplifting, but it all seemed intangible to me.
After two more years of pain, sorrow, humiliation, and lack I was told by a physician that I had two months to live. I returned to my home that day intending to end it all by self-destruction. I opened a desk drawer and looked at a revolver, but something urged me to wait another day. That night, although I did not sleep, thoughts seemed to be present that were comforting and quieting to me. They were beautiful thoughts, abiding with me during the dark hours waiting for the dawn; and just as the day began to appear the thought came to me that I would ask for treatment in Christian Science. I went to a practitioner that day, and told her that God had put a curse on me. She talked to me as to a little child, assuring me that God is Love, our Father-Mother, and He would not put a curse on one of His little ones.
I returned to my home with a copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. That night I ate my first full meal in many weeks, and fell asleep in bed while reading the chapter on Prayer in the textbook. The next morning I realized that I had had my first night's rest in many months, and I put aside the three kinds of medicine I had been using. Functional disorders that had persisted for over ten years disappeared the same day, and the following morning I discovered that the last symptom of cancer of the stomach had disappeared and I was a well woman. I then got out the medicine which I had been using and threw it away.
