For many years I had been a business woman with considerable responsibility, prone to overwork and worry. After four years of declining health I finally experienced a complete breakdown. The most outstanding of the many difficulties was acute stomach trouble, from which I had suffered since a child. I was put under the care of a number of well-known medical men, some of them close personal friends, and was treated for some months without a sign of improvement. As I was much discouraged, it was decided that I should consult a noted specialist. After I had been four months under his care, most of the time in a hospital, he gently advised me to go home so that I might be near my dear ones; and although he did not tell me so directly, I realized that he had given me up and was sending me home to die. Later I learned that one of his assistants told a relative I had come to them too late to be benefited. My homecoming seemed well-nigh impossible, owing to my extreme weakness and the constant pain which the slightest movement of the body seemed to aggravate. The best that I could hope for was to reach my home and say good-bye to my dear ones. I arrived on Saturday, August 22, 1927, almost in a state of physical collapse.
The following day, at a time when the pain was all but unbearable, the remembrance of a case I had heard of while in the hospital came to me, a case similar to mine, of long standing, which had been greatly benefited by Christian Science in a very short period of time. I told my husband about it and we decided to try Christian Science, although with little hope or faith that it could help me. A practitioner was called and treatment started and lovingly carried on. At the end of twenty-four hours I was up and able to do some of my housework with a little assistance. After the first week the assistance was dispensed with and I took charge of my home, doing even the most strenuous of the cleaning. The whole web of so-called complications simply disappeared under the light of Truth. My complete healing was slow, for there was much to correct in my thought.
My gratitude to Mrs. Eddy, who made this wonderful truth available, and to the patient, loving woman who helped me to understand our Father-Mother God, the God whose very existence I had doubted for so long, cannot be expressed in words. I can only hope to make my life attest my sincerity.— San Francisco, California.
