After a year of medical treatment for a growth in my abdomen, I was told by the doctor, "Nothing but the knife will remove it." I decided to seek advice from an older sister, who lived in another state. When I arrived at her home she asked me to try Christian Science. I said: "Please don't mention that to me, for I do not want it. It is just not for me."
She looked disappointed, but in a few minutes she said: "You write to a practitioner for help, and if you aren't healed, I'll pay for the treatments; if you are healed, you pay for them. Isn't that fair enough?" "Yes," I said, "and to please you, I will do it; but I feel sure you are going to have to pay for the treatments."
I wrote to a practitioner and told her I did not have as much faith as a grain of mustard seed, but that if there was anything Christian Science could do for me, I would do what she wanted. She replied that all she wanted me to do was to get a Bible and the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and then to read daily the entire Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. In about two and a half weeks the growth in my abdomen had vanished.
