In October, 1897, a young woman had been obliged to leave the factory where she was employed, because of a cough, and had been for some months disturbing the rest of her parents. as well as her own rest. Her physician told her that her lungs were affected, and that she might be helped, but would have to take medicine for a long time. As she returned to her home she met a friend who had been healed after having been given up by physicians, and the result of the talk was that she asked help of a Christian Scientist the next day. She had four treatments inside of one week, and then said to her healer, "I have not coughed at all for three days; I sleep so well I feel like a different person; I am better in other ways that I did not ask help for, and I do not need any more help." And this proved true, for she soon walked two miles (a mile each way) to the Wednesday evening meetings and Sunday services held in the nearest Church of Christ, Scientist, as well as being again helpful at home.
A few weeks after her healing, the physician whose medicine she had never taken met her at a neighborhood gathering, but did not know her, and being introduced said to her, "How is your sister's health now?" and when she smiled he added, "Why, you are well!" "Yes; I am well," she answered, but did not at that time tell him that it was entire reliance upon God's word as taught in Science and Health, and with no mental reservations to any lesser power that had destroyed the shadows. Six months later we saw her rosy, strong, and happy, a constant attendant at meetings and student of the Christian Science books and publications, which alone enable us to understand this new-old truth brought to light again. Two years later we learn of her as having been for some months the trustworthy housekeeper of one of our Board of Lectureship, and that her life was influencing others to seek the true way.
The parents of this young woman were antagonistic to Christian Science, having only heard false reports, but after their daughter's healing the mother attended the meetings, assured it was the power of God that had wrought it, and soon had "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" in their home.— Boston, Mass.
