No words can express my gratitude to God for the blessings received through Christian Science. For many years I had poor health, from kidney-disease and other complications, and gradually grew worse, until I became completely bedridden. After having doctored regularly five years, exhausting the skill of many of our best physicians, — whose different opinions I will not pretend to report, for fear I should fill the Journal, — I concluded that I would give up medicine, in March, 1887, and I found that my health was none the worse for the change. Eight or nine months after this we heard of a Christian Scientist, C. M. Howe, at St. Joseph, Mo., and immediately my parents consulted him on my case. When Mr. Howe first visited me, Dec. 27, 1887, I had been kept in my bed nearly three-and-a-half years, during which time I could lie in one position only. I could sit up only long enough to have my bed made, and sometimes not so long as that, and I could walk but a few steps, with a cane. After the first present treatment I was able to walk alone, without assistance; and I improved so rapidly that ere long I was able to sit up all the time.
Amazonia, Mo.
