My heart is so filled with gratitude that I feel I must give this testimony.
From childhood I had always been ill, and doctors had pronounced me consumptive. According to medical laws, I had inherited this disease from my mother, who had passed on with it when I was a baby.
Years went on, and so did the suffering. Most of my time was spent in hospitals and doctors' offices. I shall always remember the moment when the mist began to clear. One morning, when it seemed I was nearly driven to distraction, I cried aloud, asking that God would send me comfort and guide me to do the right thing. "Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." Not long afterward I called on a friend, and saw her studying the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. In a kindly way she asked me if I would like to take Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and read it. At first I drew back. Then I said, "Yes, I should like to read anything to pass the time away." My thoughts then were that I had not long to live. So I took the book home, and sat down and began to read it, not knowing that it contained the healing truth. But before I had read through the chapter on Prayer, I knew I had found the best tonic I had ever taken. I was very happy. I felt so free and uplifted that I could feel the fetters which seemed to have bound me and bent me low, fall away one by one.
