Seventeen years ago I was healed of a goiter through reading "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. At that time I was not aware of the healing effect or the help and happiness Christian Science brings. All I knew was that I read day and night because I could not lay the book down, until one day my sister said, "Go to the mirror and look at yourself." I was healed.
Neither did I realize that Christian Science was the religion I had been unconsciously looking for. As a child, and as I grew older, I had read the Bible with much comfort in times of trouble. I longed to join a church, but did not know which it should be. I believed at that time that Jesus would come again in the flesh, and would point out the church that was his. I longed for a church in which Jew and Christian might worship God together and believe in Christ Jesus as the Messiah. I did not know that a pure New England woman, Mary Baker Eddy, had already established such a church. I also longed for a clean newspaper, of high literary tone, which might be equally suitable for children and adults. I did not know that Mrs. Eddy had established just such a newspaper, the object of which is "to injure no man, but to bless all mankind" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 353).
One day, when my husband and I were on a farm and our troubles seemed greater than we could bear, we knelt down in the field where we were working and prayed aloud that God would show us the way. We were led, against our own wishes, to take a certain course of action. My husband went to visit a friend of long standing who could help him to get work. All these years we had not known that this man was a Christian Scientist. He told my husband about Christian Science and gave him some literature.
