Letters & Conversations

From childhood it has been my desire to live a pure, good life. My parents were Baptists and I was brought up in that church.

I HAD been an invalid for thirteen years. I had been treated by the best doctors in this vicinity; had been to two hospitals in Boston, had three operations performed but received no benefit, kept growing worse, and three years later was carried back to the hospital.

Dear Journal : — I have been thinking for some time I would add my mite to the reports from the field, and let others have the benefit of hearing of some of the demonstrations which I have witnessed, of the power of Truth to destroy error. I will relate some cases that are perhaps a little out of the ordinary.

It is five years since I received my first understanding of Christian Science and since that time it has been the only physician in my family of five children; and we have had many beautiful demonstrations. Although at times error has seemed to almost hide the Truth, we knew that by clinging steadfastly to God nothing could hinder our demonstration.

To help some one who may be struggling in fetters as I was, I want to tell how I was released and led into the Light. I was raised in the Methodist Church and thought that to be a Christian meant to be a Methodist.

In response to the suggestion in the Journal, I send you a short sketch of my experience in gaining an understanding of Christian Science, which makes whole all who come into its blessed light. The healing was not done at once, and by another.

Having received such a blessing from the knowledge of Truth in Christian Science, I feel it my duty to give my testimony in the hope that it may be the means of inducing others to seek that knowledge which alone can make them free. Raised in the Lutheran faith, I believed the teachings of the Church until I was twenty years of age, when, to my great sorrow, I became an infidel, and during the last twenty years I have been without a God.

I became interested in Christian Science through being healed. I had no faith in doctors, therefore would not consult any; but felt that something must be done, or I would soon follow a brother and sister, who had passed on with the same claim.

For many years I had been a great sufferer from many maladies, and one that seemed to baffle the skill of medical science. I was waiting for death, as I then thought, to free me.

Though only a beginner in Christian Science, I feel that I have been so gently and wisely guided in the right way, that perhaps a few thoughts may help some one who is searching for Truth. For sometime I had an honest and sincere desire that I might be good in the truest sense of the word as I then under stood it.