Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures''(p.3), "Action expresses more gratitude than speech." Words cannot express my deep gratitude to Christian Science for the many blessings I have received.
I was instantaneously healed of what the doctors called rheumatic fever and a severe rheumatic heart condition, which they pronounced incurable. This condition necessitated my staying in bed six months at a time, and it had recurred for two and a half years. A great hopelessness was felt by my whole family. However, one afternoon a woman called on my mother, and I overheard them talking in the living room. The conversation turned to Christian Science, and the woman said that she was a Christian Science practitioner. Upon hearing this, I asked to see her.
She told me that God loved me and that I did not have to be bound by what the doctors had said. She read to me from the Bible(I Chron. 28:20), "Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." She also read to me from Science and Health(p. 469): "Intelligence is omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. It is the primal and eternal quality of infinite Mind, of the triune Principle,— Life, Truth, and Love,—named God." After telling me to learn these quotations by heart, she gave me a treatment. Then she told me to get up and dress myself and leave the sickroom. She impressed me so strongly with the thought that I could lean on God without fear that I felt sure all was well. I arose from bed immediately, and in half an hour I was on horseback, enjoying normal pleasure for the first time in years. Within a month I went to work for an electrical appliance shop, delivering heavy stoves, refrigerators, and radios. I now work for a telephone company as a lineman and enjoy hiking many miles in the mountains through deep snow in the winter and under the hot sun in the summer with no ill effects.
