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WORK IN SACRAMENTO

From the October 1888 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Trusting my experience with Christian Science healing will give light and hope to some sufferer, I gladly give it to the world. In the belief that I began life with hereditary weakness of digestion, assimilation, and nerve-force, yet possessing an energy beyond my strength, I was always careful not to overdo. I followed teaching for fifteen years, gradually losing ground, till at last medicine and will-power were no longer of use I was admonished, by those claiming to know, that I should never think of teaching again. Nothing was left untried that human skill could devise, for five years, but I grew slowly worse all the time. Diet was reduced to five or six articles, with terrible bowel-troubles over the least indiscretion. I was unable to read or to visit with my friends but a short time any day.

As a last resort I was persuaded to try the treatment of Mrs. C. L. Hall, of Denver. I had no faith, and she was over one-thousand miles away. Slowly but surely, through her instrumentality, Truth reached me; so that in a few weeks I was able to do light work. Her treatment continued for four months before I ever saw her. Then I went back into what proved to be the hardest school I ever taught, growing stronger all the while.

Mine was a slow case, as many others will be, but it is all the more hopeful to those inclined to become discouraged, because not healed at once. I know now that my persistent loyalty to the treatment was a great help. A complete mental change is requisite to bring about the realization of that permanent condition of health which constitutes true Christian Science healing. Now for two years I have had no fear of the old troubles. I eat what is set before me. My work gives no time for fear. I live in a climate where I was formerly prostrated by malaria and heat, and yet I am in full health and comfort.

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