Dear Journal: About seven years ago I was attacked with a disease the physicians called Loss of Motion, for want of a better name. The disease began in my feet, and gradually worked up until it reached my hips, and my legs became dead and lifeless. My wife, who weighs two-hundred-and-five pounds, could stand on my feet, and I could not feel her weight.
I had constipation, kidney-complaint, and dyspepsia, in their worst forms, and the pain and anguish that I suffered no one can realize, unless similarly afflicted.
While in this terrible condition, waiting and praying for death to put an end to my sufferings, Mrs. S. E. Ticknor, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, (a student of Mrs. Eddy's), stopped here, on her way home from Boston, to visit her daughter, and give the people of Jacksonville a little Christian Science, if they would accept it. I sent my wife to talk with her, and find out if she was a Spiritualist or Mesmerist, and if so to have nothing to do with her; but a few moments' conversation satisfied my wife upon that point, and she came back and reported that she believed that God had sent us help at last; and this has proved to be the case.
