I am grateful for Christian Science. I have not wavered from it in twenty-five years, no matter what the problem.
I was healed of a bad case of kidney trouble. I also suffered greatly from lumbago. For days at a time I could not get out of bed or even turn over without aid. My wife and I were living on a mountain ranch four miles west of St. Helena, California. We had no telephone, and there was a mile of one-way mountain road which was rather dangerous. In September, 1924, one of the kidney attacks and the lumbago struck me at the same time with great force. I suffered pain and misery for about a week. One afternoon, while my wife was taking care of the stock, I had one of the worst attacks I had ever had and was sure that I could not last much longer. I knew that if I called a doctor, he would want to operate at once. When my wife came in, I asked her to go to town and get me an opiate.
My wife had been a Christian Scientist all her life, but I was very young in it. She said, "Let's try Christian Science." I agreed, but asked her to bring me an opiate also. She went to town for the practitioner, and they arrived home about four o'clock in the afternoon. When they came into the house, I thought I was going to pass on; the pain seemed worse than ever, and I began to cry like a baby. The practitioner stood quietly in silent prayer. It was fully thirty minutes' before I felt any relief. Then the pain began to diminish, and about eleven o'clock I was healed. I discovered afterward that I was healed of the tobacco habit and of bowel trouble at the same time.
