For twenty years before the Civil War I was in that bondage to which my color subjected me; and for nearly all the twenty-two years since the Rebellion I have been a slave to rheumatism in every joint, and with ulceration of the bowels, which would not allow me to stoop without great suffering, and induced intense agony after eating. Having tried every remedy suggested to me, and consulted many eminent physicians, I was in the depths of despair, scarcely able to attend to my little, every-day, personal wants, when, one day last December, I heard one of my friends speak of a wonderful cure of a milk-leg, by Dr. and Mrs. Fluno. I went to see the patient myself, and thence to them for treatment. In the language of the Queen of Sheba, "the half had not been told me." I was well after four treatments; and now I can joyfully say:
Sickness and sorrow, pain and death,
Are felt and feared no more.
Words are inadequate to express my thankfulness for having heard of Christian Science.
