Letters & Conversations

We are glad to publish the following letters received by Mrs. Eddy.

My Dear Friend: — I am glad to comply with your request to write you about my healing in Christian Science. I hope that the account may encourage your friend to try Science and trust that he may receive like benefits.

To the Editor of the Boston Journal. Sir:—In the article entitled, "Hypnotism as it is Used in Medicine.

Fifteen years ago Christian Science treatment was suggested to me as a means of relief from a nervous trouble that had held me in bondage for several years. During the period of treatment, which lasted almost three weeks, I asked the Scientist but one question: "If God is a loving Father and infinitely able to do all things, why did He make me sick?" I had asked this question before, of a physician and of a clergyman, and had received in substance the reply, "I do not know.

When four years ago I first heard of Christian Science I had been more or less of an invalid for five years, and had been on my back for fourteen months without putting my foot to the ground, in the hope that the reclining position and the entire rest would help to right the internal troubles from which I had been suffering; but at the end of the fourteen months I was no better, and the doctor said the only thing that could help me was a severe operation, but as my health at that moment would not stand it, the best thing would be to get up, and see if I could perhaps get better that way, and if not, in six months' time the operation would have to be performed. I got up feeling miserable in mind and body, wretchedly weak, and seldom out of pain.

Having received many benefits through Christian Science, I feel it my duty to write of my experience and some of the good derived therefrom. About nine years ago a friend who had been under the care of physicians for several months, and was not benefited by them, decided to try Christian Science.

A Number of years ago, when about the age of eleven months, our little daughter fell from the porch upon her right shoulder and arm. We could find not so much as a bruise, and so thought no more about it that evening, but when dressing her in the morning I noticed that if her arm were moved it seemed to cause her great pain.

Motz St. 10, Berlin, September 5, 1897.

For many years I had been a sufferer, many claims held me in bondage, among which were rheumatism, an affection of the back of head and spine which was very distressing, varicose veins, and a rupture of about twentyone years' standing. I had worn a truss for seven years with instructions never to put my feet on the floor without it on.

Never was fly, tangled up in a spider's web, more helpless or hopeless than our family when Christian Science was brought to our notice in such a way that we grasped the thought as a drowning man would a straw. While not a sick child, I cannot remember ever being really well, though pride, ambition, and a strong will kept me up till nearly through my school days, at about seventeen years old, when I collapsed completely.