My earnest study of Christian Science began because of my desire to support and co-operate with another member of the family who had turned to this truth as a last resort for healing. After about four years of diligent study and persistent application of Christian Science, she was completely healed. Some of the false claims which were disproved at that time were carious bones, fistula, an abscessed kidney and abscessed lungs, inflammation, and deformity.
Mary Baker Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health (p. 167), "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." Qualities of thought which attended the spiritual awakening in this healing included courage, persistence, consecration, joy, expectation; and a better understanding of God and of man's unending relationship to Him was gained.
During this period, I had numerous proofs of divine Love's protecting and healing power in my own experience. One of these healings was the overcoming of acute stomach trouble. Upon recovering consciousness after one of these attacks, I found myself repeating "the scientific statement of being" from page 468 of Science and Health. It was almost as though a light had been turned on, and I knew that I was healed. There has been no return of this trouble in over twenty years. Accompanying this healing was a realization that I had let go of a false sense of personal responsibility.
