I have never given my testimony, dear Journal, and I hesitate to do so now through a temptation of mortal mind. But I will not be deterred from declaring Truth and its ever present help. To mortal sense I was from birth unwell, and after entering my twenties I sank, from an injury of the spine, into a state of confirmed invalidism. I lived thus seven years, a constant sufferer. I fell, also, into a dreadful mental condition. My belief was a complication which so enslaved me that I ate, slept, and moved by rule. From this I was awakened, in the Spring of '87, by Christian Science. The story of my deliverance from the power of the enemy is too long for the pages of the Journal. If any one cares to hear more of it I am ready to give as much of it as may be needful, either personally or by letter.
Do I ever have a pain to meet? Certainly, but I have had something better and higher than merely relief from pain. I have God, Truth, to meet every experience with now. I can affirm that of my nine different doctors, representing five different systems, I received no benefits to compare with those I received from fourteen weeks' treatment in Christian Science. And as a preventative against pain and disease it stands unequalled in my experience. I speak as one who testifies of that she knows and understands. I now eat that which is set before me; I sleep as convenience allows; I enter upon whatever activities I am called to by duty. I do these things because, though to mortal sense I could not, I knew God had given me inalienable rights; that matter could not rule me and that Immortal Mind does. Though sometimes I falter, I have always proved that if I claim my own harmony, strength, life, health,— all things of Eternal Good — they are mine.— Orono, Me.
