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Letters to the Journal from our readers. Opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Christian Science Journal.

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

with contributions from Louise F. Kollmorgen, John F. Waite, Martha A. Wattis, E. S. Morris, Annie G. Klein, Dora Studebaker Innis, Mary Lloyd, Anna E. Conner, George C. Gardner, Jr., H. K. Hamilton, W. S. Patterson, Henrietta Cole, W. M. G, Carrie A. Cooke, Hannah B. Duffus, Jessie Brock Morgan, Gracie Newcomb, L. C. Crocker - July 1, 1899

Through Christian Science God has bestowed great blessings upon me. I had suffered for many years, and in January, 1896, I went to a surgeon who, after an examination, told me that my only help was an immediate operation.

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with contributions from C. A. Wells, Dora Mayo Nickerson, D. M. N., Kate Y. Remer, Carrie B. Booth, Lucinda M. Overman, A. W. Paine, I. P. Wootan, Alice E. Goodall, Emma D. Behan, E. H. Frank, E. S. D., L. J. W., Lizzie Millikan, L. C. H., A. Hossick, Pauline Neumann, Frances S. Turner, E. Suntag, Jessie Estef, Bessie B. Green, L. Pearl Lindley, Arthur D. Monger, Lydia M. Childs - June 2, 1899

The first time Christian Science was brought to our notice was four years ago this coming summer. On our return from a visit to my brother and his family who live in a neighboring city, my wife asked me if I knew that Anna (my brother's wife) was a Christian Scientist.

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with contributions from Eugene Kern, S. H. M., Emma Campen, G. R. Smith, W. H. P., A. R. Nichols, George Shaw Cook, Adeline S. J. Hopkins, E. J. Dudley, Charlotte E. Foster, Grace Hall Crawford, E. A. Hobbs, Martha Guinn, E. B. R. - May 1, 1899

About a year ago last August I was introduced to a gentleman on the train, going from Burlington to Rutland, Vt. After speaking of casual things, the gentleman suddenly made a motion indicating pain, saying that he was suffering from dyspepsia, that he had tried everything, was taking medicine, was under a doctor's care, and could not get relief.

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with contributions from William G. Long, Florence Swaine Loudon, Margaret M. Ellison, N. H. W., S. N. Norton, Belle A. Armstrong, A. S. H., Abbie C. Thayer, William Reilly, Josie F. Osborn, Rosa Loy, J. H. Long, K. S. Preston, Emily L. Cameron, Esther C. Janes, Theresa Oswald, G. E. N., Nettie Wagner, M. E. D., F. T. Miller, P. W. F., Clarence Sisler, P. C., M. R. K., M. B. Morgan, Davenport Bromfield, Mary H. Anderson - April 1, 1899

Christian Science was sought by me for the physical healing, as I had been a great sufferer for twelve years, and had become a physical wreck through disease, and a slave to materia medica. About ten months before I went to see my healer and teacher, two of the most reputable M.

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with contributions from Mary E. Byrne, Geo. A. Fleming, Hattie Sims, M. E. Tibbetts, Minnie A. Bigelow, F. B. Carly, Mrs. C. D. Philips, Oscar D. Kirkland, G. A. Phillips, J. M. S., L. S. S., Richard Millar, E. J. Marvin, E. T., M. M. D., F. J. Moffit, E. D., Harry Justice, Helen E. Sutherland, C. C. Sabin, Mrs. Joanna Webber, Charles M. Howe - March 1, 1899

For six years I was a sufferer, spending the greater part of my time in bed, never free from pain day or night, brought on through childbirth. I fought desperately for life, as I had small children and felt I could not leave them without a mother.

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with contributions from J. W. H., N. R. N., A. T., M. E. R., A. G. H., Annie W. Macy, C. S. H., E. P. F., Elsie Lincoln, R. J. Smith, I. T., Hattie M. Berger, Carrie A. Crocker, A. B. C., Anna Ellsworth, Florence Woodward Clark, F. B. E., Nellie M. Baker, Ella R. Marsh, W. K. Doty, Marie Grant, G. P. Nicolai, C. F. Stayner - February 1, 1899

Dear Journal: —I desire to mention a few of the demonstrations that have been made since coming to this place three years ago. Error has many times screamed loud and long, has tried to drive us out, and failing, has even solicited us to leave.

LETTERS TO MRS. EDDY

with contributions from Lewis B. Coates, Katie Bangs - February 1, 1899

Salt Lake City, Dec. 15, 1808.

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with contributions from Mary Trammell Scott, H. S. Fiske, M. P. Smith, H. E. V. T., W. V. McCoy, Mary E. Carle, Sadie McKibben, Julia Hitt, A. C. S., Dora Bond, Elizabeth J. Flack, Carribel Clevenger, Victure Witt, Sarah Hall, Edith D. Urquhart, Mary H. Thomas, Lolla K. Tucker, M. C. L., James E. Comstock, Ella A. Telfer - January 1, 1899

In the summer of 1892 I was instantaneously healed of an organic trouble and of nervous prostration by a conversation with one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal students.

LETTERS TO MRS. EDDY

with contributions from Harriet V. W. Bennett, Flora L. Hodge - January 1, 1899

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Concord, N.

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with contributions from Georgie Heyer Westhoff, Esther Bedell Flack, Etta Clark, Mary Usborne Geer, Mary I. Harden, Edith M. Campfield, Sarah A. Durfee, C. W. C., Susan H. F. Brown, L. C. J., Herbert M. Wells, Salem E. Weld, L. W. D., M. C. Ellis, W. L. Yard, Matt Riggs, Emma A. Witzel, Walter Roy Sennett, F. Van Inwegen, Jessie Hildebrandt, Mary A. Newman, Edwin N. Randall, Irene Safford, M. J. Karr, Fred Cash, Adelaide J. Thompson - December 1, 1898

For two and one-half years I was unable to walk, most of the time bed-ridden, with what six of the best physicians of Fort Worth said was floating kidneys, caused by a fall; also curvature of the spine, chronic sciatica, rheumatism, lumbago, and female troubles. The suffering was so great that I could not be touched.

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