Testimonies of Healing
About two or three months ago I had a belief of scarler fever, and mamma had to report to the Board of Health, and my two sisters couldn't go to school; the first time they had been absent or tardy. One had been going to school five years, and one three years.
It is now five years since I came into Christian Science, and I think it is my duty to tell what it has done for me and my family. During that time I have never used drugs of any kind.
When only six years of age I was taken with epilepsy. We sought first one doctor, then another, for help, but there was none, I suffered not only from the fits but other diseases took hold of me.
I feel it is time I tried to express my thanks through the Journal for what Christian Science has done for me, my wife, and little daughter. I suffered for twenty years with eczema in its worst form.
Christian Science has done so much for me that I want to tell every one I can about it, that it may help others to investigate it. I will try to be brief.
Christian Science was first brought to my notice in March, 1898, and in the September following I began to read Science and Health. A friend had told me that what power Christian Science had was of the devil, but I decided to read the book and form my own opinions.
One year ago last April Christian Science was brought to us and I was cured of a great many troubles. I had suffered all my life with backaches, and was at that time suffering from the effects of a miscarriage brought on by a congestive chill and fever.
About twelve years since I met with an accident, falling a distance of about forty feet on a pile of broken rock. It was thought at the time that I would be crippled for life, but broken bones were skilfully set and everything done for me by my kind and skilful surgeon.
Some time has elapsed since I wrote you; and I feel that I must, as some one may desire to note the progress of, or hear from, this particular case, as in August, 1897, I only gave a brief sketch. Three years have worn away much error, wrought much improvement in me in every way—physically, mentally, morally, spiritually.
In October, 1897, a young woman had been obliged to leave the factory where she was employed, because of a cough, and had been for some months disturbing the rest of her parents. as well as her own rest.