Dear —:—When my brother was home at election time he got those Sentinels out of the postoffice that you sent me, and he and my sister went in to see our neighbors across the street. My sister, not thinking what she was doing, opened the package and forgot to bring the papers home. The people are about sixty-six years old. They have had rheumatism, and the husband had a cancer and was doctoring to prevent another from forming. Well, as the papers were there, they read them and said they were quite different from what they had expected (owing to the behavior and literature of mind-cure people who call themselves Christian Scientists, in that locality). They have now read several of the Christian Science lectures you sent and one Journal. This morning I loaned the wife my new Science and Health, and to-night she told me she liked it. She has tried to treat herself. My sister-in-law is more and more interested in Science every day. ... Christian Science has been so misrepresented here that the people I met had little desire to look into it, but since my arrival and since the reading I brought with me has been distributed, they say it is very different from what they had any idea of, and the more they read the more interested they seem to be.
I have used my eyes a great deal since I have been home, have sewed all day and read at night. They do not get red and inflamed as they did. I feel so much better spiritually and physically I weigh one hundred and thirty-two pounds.
Note.—The above was written by a middle-aged lady who had not been able to read a line for fifteen years previous to her coming to Christian Science for help. The cause was granulation of the lids, and later, ulcerated eyeballs. She had been under treatment several weeks when the latter trouble appeared, and the people she lived with becoming frightened began to antagonize Truth so violently that she was brought, heavily veiled and blindfolded, to the healer's home. In twenty-four hours, she was reading out of a Ruby type Bible. The demonstration of stronger sight was seemingly slow. This dear one has clung to Science in situations calling for the courage of a Daniel. Previous to her locating in her present home she braved unspeakable persecution, poverty, and insult; situations were lost and relatives grew cold and cruel because of her adherence to Truth. After working hard all day, she would often be deprived of a lamp by her employers on the plea that "reading Christian Science" would destroy her sight, so Science and Health, her comforter and stay in those dark hours, could only be read at short intervals. She is full of joy at the thought of doing God's work in her new home; is demonstrating gloriously for herself and helping others in healing and distributing literature. Cancer, piles, hysteria, and neuralgia were among the other ills she was afflicted with.— DeFuniak Springs, Fla.
