My testimonial of healing appeared in the Journal for June, 1889, a few months after being healed. The physicians pronounced my case incurable during ten years of great suffering and hopeless invalidism. I was never taught to believe in any religion, but merely to respect it, until hearing a lady tell of her recovery by faith and prayer alone, and imploring me to do likewise.
After suffering several years longer I was compelled to do as she instructed. My prayers were unmistakably answered, and I was much benefited for a season. I then began to believe in a God. I prayed earnestly and constantly to know God of a surely. That prayer has been answered completely as revealed in Christian Science.
I first heard it spoken of by a very dear relative who had been much benefited. I said if this were God's power, which I really believed it was, I felt that it could heal me also. At the end of three days' treatment all suffering was completely destroyed. Improvement continued very rapidly, until, in a few weeks, I could walk alone. I often think of Paul's words: "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
