Dear Journal :—On Dec. 23, while making a call, I was in the act of shutting a door, when turning quickly I twisted my ankle, something gave way in my knee, and I fell fainting to the floor. I was assisted to a sofa, where a little realization of the Divine Mind as the Ruler of all things came to my rescue, and I rallied and sent for a Christian Scientist, as I had before been benefitted by treatment of this kind. Mrs. Bryan of Boston arrived after I had been in a hard situation for five hours. A surgeon was immediately summoned, who said it was a displacement of the knee-pan, and pronounced the knee much inflamed. He set the knee-pan, and requested me not to use it for a while. I made no reply, placed my case entirely in Mrs. Bryan's care, who had already relieved me of the pain during the operation, which would otherwise have been very severe, and before the physician left the house, I was walking about the room. The doctor remarked that he would not have risked the using of it as I did for $1,000. I wore no bandage, the next day returned home, and have used the knee from the first, going over stairs as usual. Is not this a demonstration of the power of Christian Science? My interest in the cause is growing deeper, and I cannot express my happiness in giving up the false and accepting the true. This is within the reach of all who will strive the right way to obtain it.
Watertown, Jan. 18, 1887.
