Testimonies of Healing

I would like to acknowledge, through the Journal, what Christian Science has done for me. I was taken suddenly ill at my place of business.

About three months ago, yielding to the urgent solicitations of friends, I placed myself under the treatment of Mrs. Laura Lathrop, C.

The sudden recovery of Conrad Kies, a well-known barber, who was supposed to be dying of kidney-disease, has roused the attention of the citizens to Christian Science. A representative of The Elmira Tidings investigated the matter, and found himself confronted with many cures, wrought not by drugs, electricity, spiritualism, faith, mind-cure, mesmerism, nor massage, but through Christian Science, which he thus defines:— The healing power is God, as demonstrated by Christ and the apostles.

Dear Friend :—I am thankful to inform you that, since your treatments, I feel like another person. I am improving rapidly, I can discover it daily.

In an exchange we read of a patient who was cured of a paroxysm of sneezing, by being shown an artificial flower, neither perfumed nor medicated. This shows how powerful is thought over physical conditions.

We have read with interest the cases reported monthly in the Journal, unmindful that others may be equally interested in the work in Worcester. As we all like to watch the results of Truth when applied to the dear little children, I will give a few cases.

An alleged faith-cure, in South Orange, N. J.

A curious instance of the power of the imagination is reported from Marlboro, Mass. A leg of a woman had been amputated, and buried one month.

Heart , be thou not the grape that underneath the leaves Hides, that it may not be the prey of garden thieves. No thief has found that grape! but ah, no sunbeam's power Has reached its dark retreat, and so that grape is sour.

I have been cured of chronic inflammation and pain in the side,—thanks to the Divine Principle and Dr. Wickersham.