Dear Mrs Eddy: As speech has been so miraculously restored to me, I feel that I must use it in telling others of the great Truth, which has been demonstrated upon me, that healing power which all may find if they seek for it in the right direction. Ten years ago I received a terrible fright, which so shocked my nervous system that my voice entirely left me. For seven years every effort was made to restore my speech, but without avail. The physicians at last gave my case up as hopeless, and I felt that the remainder of my life would have to be that of one apart from the rest of the world, — of one entirely dumb. My people finally heard of a Christian Scientist, and they took me to her. I reached her home on Tuesday, and on Tuesday of the following week I spoke. My voice was restored; but before I felt really able to talk, I experienced similar feelings to those I had at the time of the fright, — a sensation of extreme weakness, something like paralysis. In my first few words I felt a choking, and an oppressive feeling through my chest; but this entirely passed away in a few days; and I now speak with as much ease and clearness as ever. I had also been greatly troubled, during my dumbness, with severe headaches and sleeplessness; but those afflictions have also entirely left me. I have not words to express the happiness that fills my heart, my feelings of gratitude toward you, the Discoverer of this great Science, and toward Mrs. Thompson; but she tells me I must not thank her, but look to God, as it is through Him the blind are made to see and the dumb to speak. Very respectfully,
