This young woman was happily teaching school in a small town in Kansas when she contracted tuberculosis. At first, her father who was a doctor, tried to treat her successfully. But he wasn't able to cure her, so she was taken to a nearby sanatorium for rest and hopefully a cure.
However, it wasn't long before the verdict came in: they gave her at most six more months to live. It was at this critical point in her life that something quite unexpected happened. One day a lady in the town who knew of her situation came to visit. She happened to be a Christian Scientist, and she told my friend of the many cures being brought about by the truths in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. My friend said at once, "Oh, give me the book that can do that for me!" A copy of this book was brought to her which she began reading, night and day. And the wonderful thing about this, she walked out of that facility completely and permanently free of the TB.
Not only this, she was on fire to help others gain the freedom and good health God had brought her. She spent the next six decades in the public practice of her new religion, taking thousands of cases needing help. Her dedicated work in Tulsa, Oklahoma reached way beyond that city and state, and impacted the lives of people all over the world who called on her for help.
I met this woman many years later and was fortunate to have her help at times while growing up. More than once, I phoned her for prayerful Christian Science treatment or went to see her with this or that problem. I was always restored. Healed when healing of a physical difficulty was needed. And sometimes the need was urgent.
Christ Jesus said: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." The divine truths as contained in Science and Health certainly did this for my friend. And it is still doing this today.
