After spending many years of discomfort while seeking medical relief, I was healed through Christian Science of a severe stomach trouble. This healing was accomplished through the prayers of a Christian Science practitioner. Under her treatment the stomach trouble left me in three days; so did the tobacco habit. Neither has ever returned. Several minor complaints disappeared at the same time.
Filled with gratitude for these healings, I daily studied the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. Soon I joined The Mother Church, as well as a branch church, in which I became an active worker, and later I received class instruction. During this time I had many healings in my business and home as I learned how better to apply the truths set forth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, a book which I can truthfully say has completely changed my attitude toward God, toward the world about me, and toward those with whom I daily come in contact. It is my firm conviction that its author communed with God. From where else could have come the healing truths it contains? I have been healed many times as I have read it.
Several years after my first healing I was faced with an aggravation of migraine, a condition from which I had suffered since childhood, and which hampered me one or two days out of every week, often confining me to the house. One day as I sat praying to God for guidance and light I looked down upon the open Bible before me and read, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death" (Prov 14:12).I had read these words before, but this time I was startled by the realization that a certain line of thought, which I had always indulged with satisfaction, was utterly wrong. A deep sense of repentance came to me. I resolved to turn around mentally and, like the prodigal, go back to my Father. Then followed a period of struggle, during which I had occasion to remember many times the wise counsel of a dear friend: "If you stumble and fall, get up and go on; do not look back. God did not cause the fall."
