The question has often been asked me, "Why do you not give to the Field some of the cases of healing that have come through your work?" and I have always had plenty of excuses on hand, but I have found that all of them, when analyzed, are reduced to their native nothingness.
This year's experiences have been rich indeed, richer than any other.
Early in the year I began to prepare for examination before the Board of Education. Later, whether it was a misinterpretation of my own regarding the By-laws or not, I seemed debarred from the great privilege. After the claim of disappointment had been handled the voice of Love, saying, "To, I am with you alway," brought comfort, and I saw my husband leave for Boston with such a sense of gratitude in my heart that he could go, that self was lost sight of, and I determined to work during his absence as never before.
The first case that came to me was one of lameness caused by milk leg. The cords were contracted, and the woman walked painfully with a crutch, so that she required assistance in getting into the house. Very few words were spoken, but after the treatment she arose quietly from her chair, and walked with perfect ease three blocks, to a boarding place I had procured for her. In the afternoon she walked down into the city, and the next day returned to her home entirely healed. There has been no relapse. As a result of this work many came with various claims, for the healing. Among them a case of typhoid fever which was healed with one week's treatment; two cases of morphine habit were healed, one of them with one week's work. The other came when I was too busy to give him any attention. I handed him a copy of Science and Health, which he had never heard of before. I don't think he took his eyes off of it for two hours, and I let him read. Next morning he came very early, and said. "My appointment is not until ten o'clock, but if you will let me take that book I will read until you are ready to see me." He took a seat in a swing in the yard, and read until nearly noon. I sold him the book, and the next day he went home. I did not hear from him again for some weeks, when he came to see me. He was beaming with satisfaction with the results of the work. While he had treatment, I attribute the results in this case to his faithful reading of Science and Health.
Following this a case of appendicitis and one of inflammatory rheumatism were healed the same week. During this time my husband was sending me Boston papers containing accounts of the meetings being held, and among them came our Mother's Message, which brought with it such a wave of love that all sense of absence, distance, or separation was forgotten, and I realized as never before that Good is omnipresent.
The first week in August I was called to a neighboring city to treat a man who had consumption. He was in bed, given up by his physician. I remained with him only long enough to give the treatment. Four days from that time he came to see me, and gave this account of his healing. "In twenty minutes after yon left me I dressed myself, and went out into the yard. The next day I went into the city where I created a great sensation, a crowd gathered about me, expressing astonishment, and asking many questions; among them was an editor, who asked for a statement of the facts regarding my healing, that he might publish it in his paper, but I told him I knew nothing to tell, only that I had been suddenly made well." While with me he beat his chest hard with his fists to show me that his lungs were perfectly sound, where before the treatment the slightest examination by his physician produced violent coughing and raising. A telephone message from his sister to-day assures me that he still continues well, and will soon attend our church services, as he has moved to this city. At the time he visited me he brought with him an aged uncle, who was healed by three treatments of inflammation of the eyes, stomach trouble of long standing, and tobacco habit.
A man who had been in bed for six weeks with sciatica was healed with one absent and one present treatment. As he left my door walking straight and upright, he said, while his countenance beamed with gratitude, "I feel that I can never limp again." The next was a German woman with partial paralysis. She could not read a word of English, and spoke it very imperfectly. I gave her two German tracts, which she read while I gave the treatment. As she trudged away, carrying her stick in her hand she said, "God is better to lean upon than a stick."
A lad about seven years old who had fallen from a tree, and was suffering from injured neck and spine, so that he was unable to walk or turn himself in bed, was liberated, and as his friends afterwards wrote me, in five minutes after I left the house was out in the yard at play.
I could mention other cases especially convincing, and will perhaps do so later, but enough for the present.
Dear friends, if the simple recital of this work can do any one a tenth of the good it has already done me I shall be glad indeed, for as each demonstration brings to us a clearer understanding of Truth, this work has brought to me a deeper, fuller realization of the power and presence of divine Love, manifested in the world to-day, destroying sin, sickness, and death, and bringing mankind out of the bondage of darkness, into the glorious light and liberty of the sons and daughters of God.
Battle Creek, Mich.
