Letters to the Journal from our readers. Opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily those of The Christian Science Journal.
Letters & Conversations
I SHOULD like to acknowledge through the Journal, one of the many ways in which Christian Science has helped me. From a child I had always been subject to severe neuralgic headaches, lasting for days at a time and obliging me to stay out of school a great deal.
Dear Journal: — I send you this testimonial in grateful acknowledgment of God's power in what it has done for me and mine. For twenty years (at intervals) I was a great sufferer from what the doctors term Sciatica in its worst form.
MR. S.
Dear Editor: — Permit me, through the Journal , to thank the "many friends" who gave me such a kindly good-bye and God-speed when I sailed away from them the last Saturday in August. I was not expecting to see so many friends, to receive such a beautiful bouquet or witness so large a manifestation of love, which, for the time, seemed to incapacitate me for expressing myself in a manner I would have liked to.
1617 Chestnut St. , Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Journal :— I have been helped so much by the contents of your columns, the testimonies of others as to what God has done for them when they found Him in Christian Science, that I decided to wait no longer but tell what Truth is doing for me, hoping that I can help some one who is struggling toward the Light. I have been under a claim of so-called Locomotor Ataxia for fifteen years; and for more than two years I have been unable to walk.
Hampshire Arms. Minneapolis, Minn.
I HAVE to confess that I was never very well educated, and when I have been sent for to treat in highly educated families it has embarrassed me, but I always went. I was called to Huntington, Oregon, where a Mrs.
2 Park Square, Boston, Mass. , June 20, 1896.
The Journal articles are most precious to me; they cheer and encourage me with the assurance of many companions in this line of work, and that Love Divine is applicable to every human need. Still I have not jet contributed my own experience, though it is to me most precious of all, because it is the voice of Spirit to my own consciousness testifying in unmistakable language that God is indeed a practical help in every hour of need.