Letters & Conversations

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.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Concord, N.

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.

For seven years I was in bondage to physical suffering, much of the time unable to be around. I was then living in western Nebraska, but, anticipating great help from a doctor in my old home in Illinois, I went back in the spring of 1893.

I suffered , among numerous other severe troubles, such as indigestion, rheumatism, catarrh, etc. , with chalky deposits in my shoulder joints so that they were perfectly stiff, and all other joints in my arms and hands were nearly so; also atrophy of the muscles of the arms and shoulders, accompanied with insomnia.

Christian Science first came to my notice through the healing of a dear sister in Oakland, California, who wrote me that she had been healed without medicine. I feared that it was not according to Scripture, but I read and re-read her loving letters in which she was trying to show me that to heal without material medicine was in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and did agree with the Bible.

Up to the time I was thirty-five years of age, I had very little to complain of the way of health and I used my strength to the best of my ability in trying to help fill our "barns" so that some day I, too, might say, "Soul, thou hast goods laid up for many years, take thine ease eat drink, and be merry. " I tried at the same time to be a good mother, a good neighbor, and do my duty as far as I knew but I had no God I could love or understand.

REV. MARY BAKER EDDY.

For seven years I had nervous prostration and partial paralysis, or, as it is called, locomotor ataxia. For eight years previous to that I had been suffering from indigestion, so that I became a mere wreck.

Dear Journal: —From the Keystone State we applaud the sentiments republished in the June Journal from The Washington News Letter. We cannot forget that if God be for us, neither scholastic theology nor Allopathy dare long be against us, and do not fear their futile efforts to stop the fast-spreading fame of the Christ cure.