About four years ago I left Philadelphia a total wreck mentally and physically. I was ordered by physicians to take a complete rest. For two years and a half I had suffered from sinus trouble, constant sore throat, constipation, flatulence which affected the heart, severe stomach disorders, headaches, internal difficulties, and various other erroneous beliefs. I had consulted specialists in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. An operation on my nose, and the extraction of teeth, proved to be of no assistance. I grew steadily worse until I found myself with a severe nervous breakdown. Medical reports were contradictory, and conditions so discouraging that I became despondent. My memory failed, so that I could not read or write coherently, and at times there was even an urge to self-destruction. In this condition, early in January, 1927, I entered a New England sanitarium.
I had lost all faith in doctors, so one day when on a walk with the head nurse I stopped at a Christian Science Reading Room, asked some questions, purchased a copy of The Christian Science Journal, and taking the nurse with me I went to a Christian Science practitioner for help. After seven treatments I was sufficiently improved to start work at a college near by. Although for six weeks I slept at the sanitarium and submitted to their tests, I had no treatments of any sort, and no medicine other than a preparation for constipation, which did not cure.
I had not given up anything, and so did not give credit where credit was due, but struggled along in a half-well condition until God sent one of His radiant reflectors to live in our midst. Led to ask questions, we were rewarded with literature and an invitation to attend The Mother Church. It was a beautiful experience; and as we read, and an understanding dawned, my difficulties gradually fell away, so that late in March I was living in the town, caring for our small son, and in addition carrying on research work at the college. I can honestly say that in less than a year all the discordant conditions had vanished. In addition I had gained fifteen pounds. Those who knew me before exclaimed over the remarkable change.
