More than thirty years ago I was healed of cancer just by reading that wonderful textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. I had had two operations and was on my way from El Paso, Texas, to Chicago, where my doctor was to meet me and take me to the best surgeons there to have the third operation, which the doctors said would be the last one.
I stopped in southern Indiana to visit my mother, as I had no assurance that I should ever return. On Sunday an old school friend called and invited me to attend a service of the Christian Science Society. All this time I had been prejudiced against Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science. Our orthodox minister had told us much on this subject, and I did not feel the need of investigating for myself. Even when my best friend took up the study of Christian Science and was healed, I refused to speak to her for two years. But now I was desperate, because there was no chance for me to live much longer. I heeded the invitation, and went to this meeting. During the service I was healed of all hatred and prejudice against Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science. This I consider my most important healing, for before this I sometimes tried to read something on Christian Science, but it was just like reading the alphabet. I did not understand one word I read, because of my dense materiality. Now I could read and understand.
I borrowed a copy of the Christian Science textbook and read it through in one week's time. I had been told it was the work of the devil, and if that was true I wanted to read it so fast that I would not remember any of it. When I had finished, and could find nothing in it about the devil, but found that it was all about God, then I decided to read it again, deliberately, and see if I could understand any of it. Before I had read it half through the second time, I was completely healed. There has been no return of the disease, and I have been well ever since, never resorting to any material remedies.
