It is with joy and gratitude that I give this testimony. Christian Science came to me at a time of great mental and physical distress. I had been in bed for three months suffering from the effects of a major operation. Doctors, specialists, and nurses had done all they could for me; massage, drugs, electrical treatment, and injections had failed to heal me. The doctor attending suggested another major operation as the only sure remedy. This did not reassure me, for I reasoned to myself that if one operation had been followed by so many complications, how could I be sure that another one would not have the same effect. I made up my mind to refuse the operation.
That same evening a friend came to my bedside and said, "Would you like Christian Science?" I did not know what it was, but the words spelled "hope," and I replied, "Yes, that is what I want." I felt at once that this was the answer to my watching and waiting. The next day her mother brought me the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and lovingly explained that nothing is impossible to God. I believed this and straightway got up, to the consternation of the nurse in attendance, who, seeing my determination to walk downstairs, said, "You will feel giddy; you will fall down." I replied that I should not feel giddy or fall down. I felt it was my opportunity to prove the truth of what I had glimpsed, that nothing is impossible to God.
I had no ill effects from this and was instantaneously healed of any desire for further medical aid. I refused all drugs, of which at this time I was being given four or five different kinds. That was eight years ago. I have never had the operation or any further medical aid since the textbook was put into my hands. This was very wonderful to me, for I had been a V.A.D. and served in several hospitals during the First World War and considered myself well versed in medical law, having great faith in it.
