Testimonies of Healing

[Extracts from a letter to Rev. M.

My precious friend : I often think of you as earnestly engaged in the good work, so dear to you and so beneficial to suffering humanity. Most earnestly do I hope that Christian Science will come off victorious over all its opponents, and that those who have so long been held in bondage by sin and sickness may see the dawn of a glorious liberty, and a day of release from suffering.

A young lady suffered much from throat-distemper, and insisted that it was caused by a bristle from her tooth-brush, which she felt sure had lodged in the folds near the palate. Her physician could find no such obstruction; but he called in another doctor, who examined her throat, declared that he could see the bristle, and carefully removed it,—or rather pretended to do so, showing the patient a bristle which he had concealed in his hand for I the purpose.

Dear Teacher :—Have we been undutiful in keeping silence so long? We think of your labor and unceasing care in the work of establishing Christ's kingdom upon earth, the opening of eyes spiritually blinded, and the unstopping of deaf ears; and we long to become efficient workers, patient, loving, zealous, and true. We meet with many discouragements, but our victories serve to plant our feet firmer on the Rock; and thus shall we meet and triumph over every belief of error, and reach the harmony of true Being.

Mr. F.

Rupture , with severe pain, healed in three days. A woman who had suffered several years with a running sore on her ankle, and could not wear a shoe, found the pain relieved and the sore healed in sixteen days.

For several years I have suffered with rheumatism and neuralgia. After having tried several doctors, without receiving any benefit, I almost despaired of ever being well again.

I was born and brought up in the Catholic faith. From the age of ten years I was a great sufferer from chronic catarrh.

My Dear Friend : I do not know what to write first; I have so much to say, but will write of the subject uppermost in my thoughts. I have received a beautiful letter from Mrs.

My dear teacher : I have been treating a case of bronchitis, incipient consumption, catarrh, and other troubles, with good and permanent results. The death-knell of medicine is tolling.