I came home to Vermillion, Dakotah, in the full belief of weariness, aches, and pains, as part of our heritage, I found my sisters both healed of their infirmities. By Mrs. Noyes's permission my sister explained your book to me as I read, and gave me directions. It was in a terrible state of doubt and fear that I returned home; and yet a curious peace possessed me at times. A farmer's wife can not be away from duty very long. All my doubts and difficulties could not be met then; but alone, with Science and Health as my guide, I met each difficulty which my Bible-study brought up, and finally am at rest on most points. I do all my own work,— but oh! so much more lovingly and cheerfully than in the former way. Then it was a daily fret. My cry was, "So tired!" And this was my excuse for making all unhappy about me: yet I had times of struggle and penitence, prayers and tears. Now I run, and am seldom weary. I walk, and faint not; for is not God my strength? No need for Mind to linger over the washtub and dishpan, cooking and sweeping. These duties are carried on, and faithfully I hope; yet my thoughts are raised in praise to the Infinite Mind.
Today I have washed all day. I shall give five treatments, perhaps more, as two of the family have had hard days, and it is such a rest to give them a treatment. Although so busy, I can not refrain from trying to help those who are bound by their beliefs.
My husband has been healed of old-fashioned consumption, rheumatism, and catarrh,— my children, of their catarrhal belief and severe sore throats. A neighbor has been healed of a belief of tumor in the stomach and ulceration of duodenum,— a lady of measles and whooping-cough.
