It is with a sense of deep gratitude to our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, that I express my thankfulness for the blessings which have been mine for a number of years through the application of Christian Science to many problems, physical, mental, and financial. When I was a young girl, a condition of blurred vision came to me at a time when I was doing very close musical work. I had laid aside glasses some time before, and because I did not wish to resume their use, rather than go to an oculist I went to a dear relative, who was a Christian Science practitioner. My eyes were healed almost at once, and permanently; but because I knew almost nothing of Christian Science, I did not give God the glory. Instead, I rather resented the fact that this relative did not seem much interested in my difficulty.
Fifteen years after this experience this same dear one again brought Christian Science to my attention, as she saw that it was needed in my home. I was ready this time, and very soon realized that Christian Science reveals the way of salvation. How gladly then I went to her and acknowledged the great help she had given me so long before! Immediately, many discordant conditions began to clear away, one after another, never to return. Chronic constipation, chronic bronchial catarrh, burns, cuts, periodical sick headaches of great severity, influenza, weak and painful back, timidity, self-depreciation, and many other discords proved to be but "waking dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought, which flee before the light of Truth" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 418).
From childhood I had been troubled with severe chilblains, which had increased with the passing years, causing me to dread the coming of winter. This trouble appeared shortly after I took up the study of Christian Science. I went at once to a practitioner for help and was permanently and completely healed in less than a week. A large scar, which a condition of infection had left on one foot years before, disappeared at the same time. Let me add that when these discords were healed a habit of nervous hysteria and an unpleasant temperament, which had been coddled as a natural consequence of my being a so-called musical prodigy, disappeared like the casting off of an old garment and left me free to accept Mrs. Eddy's statement in her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 (p. 11): "Beloved brethren, have no discord over music. Hold in yourselves the true sense of harmony, and this sense will harmonize, unify, and unself you."
