All my life, except for a few transient sunbeams of health, I had been a great sufferer, and have endured many things at the hands of innumerable doctors, who, no doubt, meant well, and did all in their power to relieve me, but without success.
Fifteen months ago, I heard of Christian Science, and was only too thankful to avail myself of treatment, for I had lost all faith in materia medica.
I placed myself under a practitioner in London, mentioning an old claim for which I desired treatment. And now, for the encouragement of others who may be passing through, or have passed through, a similar experience, I must say that after taking six weeks' treatment, I could not see any result, and therefore gave up the treatment. However, no word of Truth is spoken in vain, and by keeping steadily to my study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," at the end of seven months I was entirely healed of chronic indigestion and another internal complaint. I can now eat or drink anything at any hour of the day or night, without experiencing the slightest ill effects, whereas before I was most strictly dieted—soup, bread, cake, tea, coffee, fruit, almost every kind of vegetable, and all puddings, except baked custard, being absolutely forbidden, while there were doses many before and after all meals, and divers pellets at intervals during the day. But with all this, nights of misery and days of despair had been my portion.
Having received so much benefit, I greatly hoped to be cured of my severe and oldest claim (this was a surgical case in the old thought), but as I deemed myself not sufficiently advanced in Science to treat such a claim, I again took treatment for several weeks, with no apparent result. It has since become clear to me that I am one of those who cannot be healed only by the work of others, however faithful that work may be, but that it needs earnest effort on my own part to complete the demonstration. I ceased taking treatment, and worked for myself to the best of my understanding, with the result that the claim, a very severe one of seventeen years' standing, entirely disappeared at the end of two months.
Since then another very disagreeable old claim, which several doctors had assured me was incurable, has disappeared, and this without any special treatment; but of course I was and am keeping steadily on with the "little book."
Besides these benefits to myself, I have been able to help others, and have had many very good demonstrations. One, which occurred a few weeks ago, I should like to mention here. I was staying with a sister who for years has suffered with acute attacks of spinal neuralgia. She came into my room about one o'clock in the afternoon, and said, "I am suffering very much from my back, and were it not that we are expecting a party of friends to lunch to-morrow, and that I must be able to receive them, I think I should let you try to treat me with Christian Science." I smiled, and said, "You must, of course, do as you please, but it seems a pity that you should go knocking at so many wrong doors, when I can show you the right one." She hesitated for a minute or two, and then said, "Very well; will you treat me now?" I did so, and at the end of a quarter of an hour she walked across the room, and said, "I am perfectly well, every particle of pain has gone." She went for her first bicycle ride this season that afternoon, and enjoyed it. Had I not treated her, she said she would have put on a belladonna plaster, and taken her medicine, both of which things she kept a store of. Since then she has not had the slightest return of the pain. I have been treating her absently for more than a month for two chronic claims, one being inflammation of the eyes, for which she had been under a celebrated oculist, who could only relieve her for a time by a painful process, and whose fees were very high. She tells me that both claims have almost disappeared. Truly we, the people who have until now sat in darkness, have seen a great light, and honored and blessed indeed is Mrs. Eddy, whose hand has been singled out to hold the Sacred Lamp.
Kintbury, Eng.
