Christian Science came to me in a time of great need. In 1929 I began the study of it for a physical healing. Soon I began to realize that Christian Science was just what I had been longing for. My soul was hungering for something. I did not know what, nor did I realize that I was crying out for something until the light of Truth began to dawn upon my thought.
My health had been declining for at least twelve years. I often thought of the woman in the Bible who had spent all she had on physicians, yet never improved, "but rather grew worse." The last specialist I consulted gave me no hope of my ever being a well woman again, but said that nothing would do me any good. At first I was very despondent; then I grew hopeful; I longed to be well that I might be of service to my family and to my fellow man. I never felt that I was going to pass on; I felt that there was something for me to do. and I wished to do it.
A distant relative, who knew nothing of Christian Science except that it healed, brought me a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. He said that he thought it might help me and he told me of a practitioner. Though I had been in bed for many months, I took crutches and went to the telephone and called the practitioner. She came to see me the next day. I was fully convinced that Christian Science is the truth, and that it was what I had wished for all my life. During this visit I was healed of the habit of taking medicine, and as soon as the practitioner left I had the maid throw all the medicine into the wastebasket. I have never had a desire from that day to this to take a dose of medicine, or to give one.
