HAVING read in the October Journal our Mother's loving message to her students, and to us also, her students' students, that we should write more for the Journal, so that others might be benefited by our testimonies, I will try to obey.
About twenty-one years ago my health began to fail, and for eighteen years I suffered as only those can know who have experienced suffering. I had intervals of health between, but only of short duration. I tried everything that I thought would help me, one physician after another was consulted, until I had tried almost every school of medicine, but it was useless; it was only temporary relief, and no cure. One physician, after exhausting all other means, suggested an operation, and to my husband he said (I will quote his exact words), "Your wife has a menagerie of diseases."
At this stage I was led to try homœpathy and electricity, which was one step higher than anything I had tried before. My physician was a kind and sympathetic lady, who encouraged me very much, and told me I might regain my health; hope revived within me. After three months I was discharged, and thought I would soon be quite well, but I was taking medicine constantly. I kept on for two years, sometimes thinking I was better, sometimes worse, until I found that I was worse than ever. The physician told me to come back, and take another course of treatments,—everything over again.
