One fall about thirty years ago, I contracted a heavy cold which resulted in an abscess in my head. A specialist said it was too late for anything but an operation. I refused to go to the hospital, as previous to this I had had several operations and felt that I could not go through another one; but I did have electric treatments.
I had been reared in a Christian home and been taught to pray, and I prayed desperately for deliverance from this evil. I had a bad heart, colitis, and a suggestion of lung trouble, and after eating any heavy food I would have a high temperature. I was in this desperate condition, not knowing which way to turn, when a new neighbor, seeing my plight, asked me if I did not want to read the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly with her. I told her I had no faith in it and knew nothing about it; but she assured me that it could not hurt me, if it did not help me, so I consented. At first I seemed unable to understand it, but I persisted in my study; and in less than a year I was walking several blocks two or three times a week to play volleyball, swim, and engage in other strenuous exercises. All this was accomplished without any specific help other than my own study.
Later in the year we moved out into the country, where I took up the active work incident to ranch life; and when our two children were born, with Science help, both were strong and healthy; and they are now grown, without ever having had a doctor or medicine.
