Words are inadequate to express my appreciation of Christian Science. When I first heard of it I was suffering from the last stages of goiter. The doctors had given my husband to understand that it was just a matter of time, for they could do no more. I did not want to live; I prayed to die, and on awaking in the morning would shed bitter tears to find another miserable day before me.
Christian Science, however, came into my life and changed these thoughts. Through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy I gained the absolute assurance that God is the only cause and creator; that as His idea I was in subjection only to Him and to His law. Within three weeks I was entirely healed. I knew the joy of beginning each new day with a song of thanksgiving in my heart. Life was unfolded to me from a new viewpoint—life not material, but spiritual. It is now sixteen years since that healing took place.
The overcoming of a fault of character took many years, the reason being that I did not see it as a fault but as a virtue. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 405 of Science and Health, "The abiding consciousness of wrongdoing tends to destroy the ability to do right." When the realization of this true statement dawned in my consciousness, the thought suddenly came to me that error could not destroy my ability to do right, for it could not destroy my at-one-ment with God. Immediately I felt free, and proved later that I had been healed of this and of other wrong traits.
