A good many milestones have been passed since I received my first healing in Christian Science. I have long desired to send out a testimony in regard to what Science has done for our family, but I could not seem to find words with which to satisfy this desire. Now I feel I can at least make an effort in gratitude, hoping that it will help others who may be having similar struggles.
I was in the depths of discouragement, and spending a large part-of the time in bed, debating mentally what I could do that would enable me to help my husband and three daughters, for we were burdened with a sense of poverty, when an angel thought came to me, "There is one thing you have not tried and that is Christian Science." I had seen one neighbor healed, through this Science, of the drink and drug habits; another, of heart trouble. I got out of bed and telephoned to a practitioner who lived not far away. She asked me to come to see her that afternoon. It was in winter, cold and snowy, but she had told me to come, so I went to her office, and there I began to gain my first true understanding of God.
I was healed in ten days of the lung trouble, from which I had suffered for eleven years. After this healing I told the practitioner I wanted to know how it was done. She showed me "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I had not even known there was such a book, although I had attended one service at the small church in our town. I secured the book at once.
