Words can never express my gratitude for Christian Science and for what it has done for me and for my loved ones, and also my appreciation of that noble woman, Mary Baker Eddy, who made it possible for all mankind to gain an understanding of the Bible through her wonderful textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and all of her other writings.
I asked for Christian Science help about seventeen years ago, after all material remedies had failed. I was reared in the Methodist faith and my mother was a good Christian woman. We did not know anything about Christian Science until about twenty years ago, when a neighbor lent the textbook to us, but it did not interest us at that time. I was suffering from a trouble that had held me in bondage for fully twenty years, and for which there appeared to be no help. It was an internal trouble, which caused great suffering, particularly so at certain periods. An operation left me in such a helpless condition that I had to learn to walk again as a little child, for I could not straighten up. Later on there were trips to mineral springs and other so-called health resorts, and finally a complete change of climate was ordered.
After two years I seemed to improve; but the improvement did not last, for I soon found myself in the same old rut and equally as bad, if not worse, than before the operation. During all this period I was treated at intervals by some of the most noted physicians in the United States. Then I underwent a second operation, which was performed by one of the best surgeons in the state. He said he could cure me; but six months after the operation there was not the slightest improvement, and he said I could never be cured.
