Christian Science was introduced to me at a time of great need. I had been suffering for three years from injuries caused at the birth of our little boy. No hope was given that I should ever be well, or even be able to walk again. During the last few months of the third year, my husband had to lift me into an invalid carriage and wheel me about.
I purchased a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. This book I read for about a week. The chapter on "Genesis" unfolded to my thought the truth regarding God's perfect spiritual creation, and I saw that what I was really suffering from was a belief in another kind of creation, one which God had not pronounced good. The result was that I was completely healed within the week. I arose and walked as freely as I do today. This healing took place fourteen years ago.
Two months later my husband passed on, and sorrow and separation seemed very real to me. Somewhere in Science and Health I felt sure I should find the remedy for this condition also. One day (six weeks afterwards), when things seemed hard and difficult, I found my way for the first time to the Christian Science Reading Room in the city where I live. In this peaceful room I got a clear sense of the presence of God. The words spoken by Jesus, and recorded in the fourteenth chapter of John, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid," came as if spoken aloud to my thought. I saw as never before why I could not be separated from God, from Life, Truth, and Love, and that that which was the truth about me, was also the truth about my husband. It was very easy then to reach the next conclusion, that since neither of us was separated from God, from Life, Truth, and Love, we were not separated from each other. At that moment I was completely healed of grief and the sense of separation.
