In my sixteen years of experience in Christian Science I have had many beautiful healings. The first evidence of the power of Truth upon the body was a night of restful sleep after I had asked a Christian Science practitioner for help. This was not so amazing to me as the second evidence a few days later, which was relief from chronic constipation. This truly awed me and brought my first real conviction that there is something to this Science, for the condition had existed over a period of about fifteen years. The complete healing did not take place at this time, but was afterwards accomplished by the help of practitioners at different times and my own consecrated efforts.
I was in mental darkness, searching and praying for light. I longed for a way out of bondage to numerous physical ills which had not yielded to surgery and medical science. The truth came. It was to me as a glorious ray of light breaking through clouds of darkness. First came the thought of trying Christian Science. Shortly afterwards the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, came to me. It was sent, unasked for, from one in a city some two hundred miles away to a friend who later sent it on to me. The friend's kindness in sending me the textbook has been cause for unceasing gratitude.
The healing work done by the practitioner and the truth I was gleaning from the study of Science and Health and the Lesson-Sermons from the Christian Science Quarterly so elevated my consciousness that within a few weeks the whole aspect of life began to change for me. Through this teaching the allness of God dawned on my consciousness. Old things passed away, and all things became new. I was no longer a semi-invalid, but a child of God. I rejoiced over this revelation.
