Letters & Conversations

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.

To the Editor. Dear Brother: —The enclosed is a "True story in seven chapters," the matter refers to the healing of Mrs.

Our beloved Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker G.

I have been delicate all my life, four times have been given up by the doctors. I was pronounced consumptive and had heart trouble and eczema from birth; the latter made me quite blind for a long time when a child.

I first heard of Christian Science about three years ago, through the marvelous—as it appeared to me— healing of a claim of rheumatism in the mother of a friend of mine. Being the mother of four children, girls nine and six years old, and a pair of twins—boy and girl —three years old, I was naturally interested on their account, especially as our family had had some experience with illnesses and accidents, and with physicians and drugs.