For many years I had been seeking a reason for all the suffering of mankind and the mistakes made in spite of their good intentions. I had been among destitute and hopelessly sick people, which led me to witness the healing through Christian Science of a so-called incurable cripple, who was also penniless. In a very short time he was well, employed, and supporting his wife and child.
Sometime later a friend gave me an invitation to a lecture on Christian Science, which I eagerly accepted. She told me it would be the most wonderful thing I had ever heard. Never shall I forget the joy it gave me to hear from the lecturer that God is really Love, and never sent any suffering or sorrow to His children. He also spoke of Jesus' healing the Magdalen and the adulterous woman. This lecture was such a revelation to me of God's goodness that I was instantly healed of what the physicians had termed an extreme case of kidney trouble, paralysis of the bowels, and many nervous complications. I came home and threw all medicine away, also a surgical belt without which I had been unable to rise from my bed without experiencing great pain. Sometime later I lifted a heavy weight; but my thoughts went back to the days when I was unable to do anything strenuous, and the pain returned. For a while I was filled with fear. Then I asked myself where the pain had been all the time, and I saw that it had been only in the carnal mind, the false mentality. I went into my garden and rolled the grass. Since then, eight years ago, I have never felt any return of the pain, although I have led a more active life than before. I have also been healed of attacks of nervous prostration, a fear of being left alone, sick headaches, severe colds to which I was very susceptible, and chronic catarrh.
Through the loving help of practitioners my children have been healed of scarlet fever in three days, measles in one day, mumps instantaneously, severe wounds, burns, and blood poisoning, as well as chicken pox and bronchitis. I nearly always had the same lesson to learn: my lack of trust in God was what needed healing. I can now feel happy to let my children go free, knowing He loves them more than I do. Four people in my home had warts disappear as a result of studying the words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy (p. 463), "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive." The warts had been on my hands over thirty years.
