It is a joyous privilege to express my gratitude for Christian Science. This truth was first presented to me when I was in great need of physical healing. For many months I had been in a sanitarium suffering from a severe form of nervous prostration; then I was brought home for the Christmas season no better than when I had left. The housekeeper, whom I had employed to care for my two small children, recommended that I attend a Christian Science Wednesday evening testimony meeting, and I have ever remembered some of the testimonies there given, and the joyousness expressed by those present.
After the meeting I asked a practitioner for help, and I slept quietly all that night for the first time in years. In four days I was able to resume my household duties, in spite of dire predictions by members of my family that I should break down again; but I had the positive conviction that God had healed me, and I knew that "whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever," and it was so proved.
In the intervening years I have witnessed many cases of healing in our family, including those of hernia, gastralgia, water on the knee, sciatica, croup, measles, chicken pox, whooping cough, and other so-called children's diseases, also chronic tonsillitis and acute bronchitis. My greatest cause for gratitude is that my two children have grown to young manhood and womanhood with an understanding of God and their relationship to Him, which they are demonstrating practically in their daily life.
