It is difficult to find adequate words to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me since it found me several years ago in a deplorable physical condition. Materia medica had pronounced its ultimatum that I would never walk again; or that if by chance I ever did regain my power of locomotion, it would be impossible for me to do any work that required heavy lifting or that necessitated my being on my feet any length of time.
Christian Science came into my experience after I had allowed a major operation to be performed, which left me in a much worse state than I was in before. A patient who had the bed next to mine had a copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that someone had left for her to read, and I remembered that I too had a copy of the book somewhere in my possessions. While I was lying there in a semiconscious condition one day, the still small voice of Truth whispered that Christian Science was the only thing that would save me.
When I was sent to the dear one who was to take care of me, I asked her to get my Bible and the copy of Science and Health. With these books were several copies of the Christian Science Quarterly, Christian Science Sentinel, and the Journal, which I had not known I possessed. The experience I went through the next few months was truly beautiful, for I studied the books hungrily, praying only for spiritual understanding. After I had read Science and Health through and was reading the chapter entitled "Atonement and Eucharist" for the second time, some of the statements made me realize that as God's perfect child I had the right to claim that relationship and to live it as Truth reveals it to me.
