I offer this testimony in deepest gratitude and in the hope of helping someone else who is searching for Truth.
I first heard about Christian Science in Portland, Oregon, in 1910. With a friend who was seeking healing I began to attend the Sunday services and Wednesday testimony meetings.
In 1914 I had a return of a throat ailment, a chronic hoarseness to which I had been subject since childhood. I could not speak above a whisper. As application of medicine to the throat was without result, the physician recommended a change of climate. My circumstances at that time did not permit this, so I went home in a greatly embittered mood. The neighbor with whom I used to go to the Christian Science church, although she was not a member, recommended that inasmuch as I had tried everything else, I now try Christian Science. As I did not own any of the books and knew only what I had gleaned from listening to the services in the church, I did not know that Christian Science was to be practiced through the daily study of the Bible and of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. At one of the Reading Rooms we were able to borrow a copy of Science and Health. After six weeks of study I was completely healed. For this I am unendingly grateful to God, and to Mrs. Eddy for having shown me this way.
