Three years last August, there appeared in our little daughter of eight years what the senses call Corea, or St. Vitus dance. The doctor to whom we went told us that he did not think that he could do anything for her, and that she would be likely to have it until she was fifteen. This troubled us very much. By a friend, we were then informed of a lady who had been healed of granulated eye-lids, and who also had learned how it was done; so we concluded to see her. We did not know the nature or method of the treatment, though some said it was animal magnetism. We cared not what it was if it just helped our little sufferer. The glorious result was that in three weeks she was well; there being not a sign of the trouble left. Then we became anxious to know of the power that healed. We decided to learn. The substance of the instruction was that life is not in the body, but that we are the expression of Spirit. The teacher gave us two volumes, by different authors, also a Christian Science Journal, and advised us to get Science and Health. We studied these books diligently, but could get nothing to satisfy our desire. We saw in the Journal some wonderful cures wrought by Christian Science as taught by Mrs. M. B. G. Eddy, of Boston, and also the advertisement of Science and Health. We sent for the book on receipt of which we laid the others aside and began to study Science and Health. At the first reading we gained no information, being blinded by ideas contained in the other books; but we did not let that hinder us. We began again. Then the light began to dawn, and as we travelled along it grew brighter and brighter. We studied the Bible also, in connection with Science and Health, and the beliefs that seemed to possess us began to leave us, from the oldest to the youngest. We were so deeply interested in the study that we did not notice their leaving, but when we came to think of them, they were gone. We procured all of the great author's works, and studied diligently. Have committed to memory a large portion of Science and Health; so that its teachings are ever before us, a bright light to lighten our pathway. We studied in this way for two years, during which time we had some excellent demonstrations. We then went to Mrs. E. B. F—,of Nebraska, and took a course of lectures. There we received much light on many points not clearly discerned before. Since then, we have had some wonderful demonstrations; some of them in cases that the medical faculty could not relieve. We had no help but Science and Health, and the Bible, and our governing thoughts were: "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want; " "If God is for us, who can be against us?" and "Father, lead us in the ways of all Truth." These perfect thoughts have fought for us a great many hard battles, wherein we learned that the hidden enemy and its power was an evil belief which represented nothing in the presence of Truth; that Truth was omnipresent, which showed us that both were nothing to be accepted, but something to be denied.—
Dear Journal: —I claim to be one of the lambs of the little flock of Scientists, in El Dorado, Kansas. It has been over a year since I began to investigate Christian Science, which has opened up a new world to me. I can say I knew a woman, over a year ago, who seemed helplessly bound with the belief of paralysis, kidney disease, catarrh in ears and throat, neuralgia, and deathly weakness. Medicine did her no good; she tried about all material aids and found no relief until she laid hold on eternal Life and came into transformation of the body by the renewing of the Mind. It was not long until she lost the belief of a twofold creation. I can say the woman I knew, I now know no more. I have died to the sense of such a person, but yet I live! It is not the human sense that lives but Love and Intelligence. I feel that I am renewed in that creation. It has caused chains of bondage to fall from me; it has taken away all my sorrow and care. I feel like the birds, careful for nothing; and yet I am fed and all my wants are supplied; I am so glad I am a reflection of God's love instead of a creation of the human sense of things. What beliefs of ignorance we have been brought up under, what superstition! No wonder the Saviour said: "Father forgive them, they know not what they do!" I find what heals the understanding, heals the body. If we get the sure knowledge, the body will reflect the Truth, and the old beliefs, or the old man and his deeds will be cast out. To be a true Scientist, we must have pure thoughts; we must not let anything that defiles enter into this new creation; if we do, be sure our sins will find us out. It is better to take hold of this work for one's self than to have another treat; for one can stand more steadfastly at the door of his own thoughts than can his neighbor. Let nothing enter our thoughts that we would not have reflected upon our body. By watching, we can put off the old man with his deeds, but we must make the inside (thought) clean, before we can make the outside (body) pure and harmonious.— Eldorado, Kan.
