ments of nine years' standing, which M.D.'s had failed to relieve.
I now understand that my sudden healing was due to my turning completely away from material methods; for I was convinced I should never use them again. I realized that God was my health, my strength, my Life, therefore All. As I read Science and Health, I wondered why others had not discerned this truth, — physicians, ministers, and others who had devoted their lives to benefit mankind. Yes! why? Because they had been seeking in the opposite direction to Truth, namely, for cause and effect in matter, when all cause and effect are mental.
I mention physicians and ministers, because one class claims to heal disease, the other claims to heal sin; but Christian Science heals physically and morally, — it contains all; “its leaves are for the healing of the nations.”
I was for years a great sufferer. I called doctor after
doctor, getting no help. The last one, after treating me
for one year, told me he would give me one year more
to live.
One evening a near neighbor came in and asked me to go home with her; and as it was only a few steps, I did so.
She took up a new book, Science and Health, read me a few chapters, and then gave me some Christian Science tracts, which I read, and one of them I almost committed to memory.
I bought a copy of “Science and Health with Key to
