In 1910, my first copy of the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was sent to me by a relative, to whom I had appealed for financial aid. At this time all seemed darkness before me. because I was too ill to earn a living for my infant son. My husband had passed on two years before, and I had contracted tuberculosis from him. I was in a pitiable and desperate state at the time this blessed volume came to me. After I had read the first chapter, healing began to be manifested. I realized that I had found and could lean upon God, "who healeth all thy diseases."
In two weeks' time I had obtained a position, and had gained confidence such as I had never thought possible in human experience.
The healings I experienced the first year after I began reading Science and Health were of tuberculosis, chronic appendicitis, laryngitis, tonsillitis, and adenoids, which had troubled me since childhood. All these healings came about solely by my reading the textbook.
