My attention was first attracted to Christian Science in 1910 by Christian Science literature sent to our home. From the beginning I enjoyed reading the testimonies in the Sentinel. Later I went away to school, where I felt the good effects of my slight understanding of the truth. I occasionally read "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. After a few years I went to stay with my brother and attended the Christian Science Sunday School, where I had devoted teachers to instruct me. The memory of their kindness and patience with my unfolding thought has ever been a beautiful chord in the harmony of my life. Through the understanding of one of my teachers I was healed of acute indigestion which seemed to threaten my life, and later of pneumonia in a severe form.
It was after these experiences that I longed really to understand the rule and operation of Christian Science healing. I had this opportunity some months later, when I was attacked with catarrh and tubercular trouble. This was a testing time, but I never once faltered in my thought. I believed that Christian Science could heal, and that I could prove it. However, for some time my physical condition did not improve in the least; in fact, to appearances it grew worse. One afternoon when I was thought to be unconscious, I was suddenly awakened by the word "light," which came so clearly to my thought I felt as if I had heard it spoken aloud. Immediately I opened my eyes and recognized the light and my surroundings. My thought was thoroughly alert, and these words from Revelation came to me: "It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end." I arose and dressed myself. I felt like a new person, for I had been healed. There were some physical effects which lasted a short time, but they too disappeared.
This occurred about thirteen years ago, and from that time on I did not need the help of a Christian Science practitioner until about five years ago, when a baby girl was born. I am profoundly grateful for the help received at this time. The physician in charge said it was a perfect case and a perfect baby. She is unfolding like a beautiful flower, and is a channel for light in the home, causing us to reflect more unselfish devotion, more impersonal love, and a higher spiritual understanding of conditions in general. Especially since I married and later became a mother have I found Christian Science invaluable.
