Testimonies of Healing
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.
Dear Journal : It is with pleasure I submit this testimonial in Truth, for it is my desire that others should know of this new (and yet old) mode of treating the ills of the flesh. For ten months I have been hobbling along on crutches, having been stricken with that dread malady, palsy, or paralysis, in leg and arm.
In a recent debate on this subject, at an Allopathic medical convention, Dr. F.
I consider it a duty I owe suffering humanity to give my testimony to the efficacy of Christian Science. I have had dyspepsia and liver-complaint for years, and had tried every remedy, including electricity and Turkish baths, without any lasting benefit.
Mrs. Emma D.
After months and years of almost constant suffering, from a strange and seemingly incurable disease, I caught a faint gleam of hope in hearing of the wonderful cures of Christian Science. I immediately placed myself under the care of Mrs.