Christian Science found me while I was training in a Lutheran Deaconess Home, where I was serving because of my desire to help mankind. I was called home because of serious illness in my family, and when I arrived I found that they had turned to Christian Science as a last resort. While treatment was being given I visited the local branch church to see what Science was like. Over the Readers' desk I saw the words, "God is Love," and said to myself, That is the answer to everything I have been seeking. As the result of this introduction to Christian Science several members of my family took up its study, and we have had many healings.
One member was healed of hip disease after the physician had given him up. Other healings of severe burns, acute indigestion, rheumatism, nervousness, and gallstones have been realized. One of the most beautiful and specific healings that has come to me was that of acute appendicitis. I awakened in the middle of the night in great pain. Treatment was immediately given without, however, any improvement. Early in the morning I felt that I should call a different practitioner. The one who was called came to the house immediately. The moment the door was opened, a great sense of calm and spiritual uplift entered the house. Within a few minutes the pain ceased and I was resting comfortably. The healing was complete and there was practically no convalescence. My sister-in-law and her small boys had been en route to visit us and arrived in the middle of the morning. During the afternoon we went out for a ride, and Sunday morning I taught my class in the Sunday School as usual.
One evening I threw kerosene on green logs in the fireplace to start them burning. A blaze flared up which burned my arm and singed my eyebrows and. eyelashes. I immediately went to my Bible for help and opened to Isaiah 66:16. There I read. "For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh." In our textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I turned to parts of the definitions of "fire" (p. 586), "affliction purifying and elevating man;" "sword" (p. 595), "the idea of Truth; justice;" and "flesh" (p. 586), "an illusion." These definitions showed me that I must purify my thinking about man and not see him as material. I received immediate relief and soon all vestige of the burn was completely healed.
