I feel that I have too long withheld a recital of the many blessings which have been mine since I, when a girl, became interested in Christian Science through my father's healing of chronic dyspepsia. The ailment had troubled him all his life and had been so severe that for long periods toast and eggs were his sole foods.
My Sunday school superintendent in an orthodox church became interested in Christian Science, and recounted to my father his wife's healing of insanity. Being interested, but with no thought of being healed thereby, my father borrowed the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and read the first chapter through several times. Suddenly one afternoon, he realized that the dyspepsia had disappeared, and that for several days he had been eating freely with no painful aftereffects. That was the end of the stomach trouble.
Since that time unnumbered blessings have come to me and to my family through the study of this wonderful Science. I have seen healings in the family of colds, influenza, abscess, constipation, bleeding piles, rheumatism, smallpox, measles, and many other diseases. One healing which will always stand out in my experience, and which taught me a valuable lesson, was that of chronic sick headaches. I had been subject to them for several years, suffering extremely with each attack. I always received instantaneous help when I called on a practitioner, yet they continued to recur. Gradually, they became slower in yielding, and finally I received little help when I asked for treatment, but suffered for days with every attack. In despair, and hardly hoping for help, I telephoned to a practitioner when I was suffering from one of these headaches. She gave me a treatment, but I experienced little relief. The next morning I called her and reported I was a little better. She asked me if I was impatient. I said that I was, very much so. She told me that was causing my problem, and that if I would cast impatience out of my thought, I should no longer suffer. I immediately went to work to know that as God's perfect child I could not manifest an impatient attitude, and that as the reflection of divine Mind, I could and did manifest unlimited patience. The result was that I was freed very quickly. Tempted with the same condition several times thereafter, I found that the declaration of the above truth healed me instantaneously, and eventually the trouble disappeared completely.
