I was a sick, unhappy, very much depressed person when Christian Science was presented to me by a new neighbor, and I was greatly impressed by the joy expressed by Scientists when I attended my first lecture on Science. The peace and calmness possessed by the one who introduced the lecturer and who sat so still for over an hour on the platform were an inspiration to me, and I remember thinking that perhaps Science could help me, because I was very nervous and restless.
I began to attend Christian Science church services almost immediately, and in a month's time I was healed of eye pressure and irritation. It was no longer necessary to wear glasses all day at work. The glare of the lights had previously been almost unbearable at times. My next healing was that of an appetite for liquor, which I indulged in to quiet temporarily a nervous condition. When I sincerely desired to join a branch church, I was healed without doing any specific prayerful work on the problem. In a few months I was also healed of the nervous, depressed condition. This healing came about after I heard a testimony at a Wednesday evening meeting of the healing of an eye tumor. The testifier said the growth had disappeared when she denied its reality in the light of the allness of God, good. I was suffering from a sore throat at the time and was relying on prayer for healing. When I vigorously denied the reality of the condition, overnight the sore throat disappeared, and also the nervous condition, which had seemed real to me for many years. I was very conscious of God as Love and greatly rejoiced over this healing. With the healing of the sore throat came freedom from colds and virus infections.
A year later a lump in my throat, the swelling from which extended to and affected the ear, disappeared when through prayer I learned to overcome tension and express more peace. I had an almost instantaneous healing of a felon on my thumb when I declared the ever-presence of God. In the past I had been troubled quite often by sore fingers, but since this healing I have not had one.
