From early childhood I had not enjoyed physical harmony, and during the first year of our married life, ' my husband decided that I should seek advice from the best medical authority. He was a druggist by profession, and felt qualified to choose surgeons whose diagnoses could be trusted. I was examined by two prominent surgeons, and each stated that an operation was necessary to correct the malformation of an organ. They both told me that they could not assure me that I could ever become a mother, even after the operation, but they agreed that without the operation I could never enjoy good health, nor could I ever give birth to a child.
My husband was about to leave on an extended business trip, and we therefore postponed the operation for two months. I confided my anxiety and serious condition to a woman whom I had met. She told me she had been healed by Christian Science, and asked me to try it. I agreed to do so if she would take me as a patient. She said she would take up the work for me.
I had never read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and knew nothing of Christian Science, except the ridicule of it that, in those early days, we often heard. I had no faith that metaphysics could heal a malformation, but I did have faith in God, and I hoped it was true that Mrs. Eddy had discovered the scientific rule of spiritual healing. I had been dependent on physic for several years and had daily taken medicine, but I agreed to stop all medicines and to go daily to my friend for Christian Science treatment. During the first week my bowels began to function properly. This gave me great encouragement, and I began to read Science and Health with much interest. The following statement awakened me to my birthright (pp. 380, 381): "Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man, is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God. Ignorant of our God-given rights, we submit to unjust decrees, and the bias of education enforces this slavery."
