It was over forty years ago that my mother, who was in poor health and seemed unable to receive help from materia medica, was led to ask a neighbor, who was a Christian Scientist, about her religion. They talked for several hours, and my mother came home convinced that Christian Science was the truth, the Comforter promised by Jesus. Soon afterwards the friend introduced her to a practitioner, who at my mother's request worked for her. Mother then secured a copy of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy and began the study of this Science.
The neighbor, who had been the only Christian Scientist in our town for many years, had not been attending church at that time, there being no branch church in the town. However, soon the friend and our family began attending the church and Sunday School in a nearby city. My mother's healing was not a quick one, but gradually heart disease, stomach trouble, extreme nervousness, and other diseases dropped away, and she became a strong, healthy woman.
My grandmother also laid off a sense of old age and at seventy-five was younger acting and stronger than when she first took up the study of Christian Science many years before. I am grateful that it was my privilege to attend a Christian Science Sunday School for many years. I was healed in one treatment of a painful bowel condition and was quickly healed of neuritis in both my arms. Some of the other healings I have experienced have been of colds and influenza. Headaches were healed many years ago, and I have been entirely free of them; also many illnesses were healed of which I never knew the names. Some of these healings have been through my own study, others through the help of practitioners.
