Letters & Conversations

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.

Dear Journal :— I cannot help but see how graphically yon described my own experience in the article relating to the prophet Jonah. It seems to me to be my literal experience.

Dear Journal :— You ask for instances of slow demonstrations and I think my experiences have been slow enough to encourage the slowest. I always hated to wait.

Chicago, Ill. , Feb.

I had been for twelve or more years an invalid, although everything which medical science and its physicians (who were principally specialists in large cities) advised, was promptly tried for my relief by a kind husband and friends, regardless of expense or trouble. My husband heard of Christian Science in a grocery store, where the husband of the Scientist who afterward became my healer, had dropped a seed of Truth.