Testimonies of Healing
For the public good I give this instance of cure of the eye: The white had been pierced with a bean-blower, but was successfully treated in Christian Science, and no trace of injury left: and this was done, despite the protest of a physician, who declared the result would be disastrous if the eye was not submitted to surgical treatment. M.
Dear Journal : I wish to write a few lines for the benefit of the sick and suffering, and to let all know what Christian Science has done for me. I have been an invalid for eight years, and have suffered untold misery.
My dear Teacher : Thinking it may be of interest to you to know something of my first work in Christian Science, I describe one or two demonstrations. A little child of one of our neighbors was taken strangely ill, a few mornings since.
Dear Mrs. Ingalls : I take pleasure in acknowledging myself cured of Bright's Disease.
We hear pleasant news from a Boston Scientist. A patient of his, confined in bed for eighteen years, writes to a friend in Boston: I am going to have some stockings and shoes, and shall go out-of-doors.
About thirty-six years ago I was kicked on my knee by a horse, and was kept in bed by the doctors about eighteen months; and this made a cripple of me, the injured leg being at least three inches shorter than the other. The doctors said the trouble was white-swelling.
Dear Journal: During the past ten years I have had organic disease of the heart, enlargement, which at times has been so bad that I could not walk a few rods without stopping to rest. During the past two years, I have been gradually growing worse, getting relief only temporarily, by taking digitalis, so that I had given up all hope of ever being helped.
I have been cured of a morphine habit, of twenty-five years standing, by Mrs. Lottie Salls, a Christian Scientist of this place.
Dear Madam : About seven years ago, I was compelled to go to an oculist, and have an operation performed upon my eyes. He fitted me with glasses, which I wore for a considerable time, and then removed; but the pain and difficulty returned, and I was obliged to go again to the oculist, who advised me never to take my glasses off again.
Dear readers of the Journal : I would like to say a few words in favor of Christian Science. Two years ago I was suffering from nervous prostration.