When I first began to study Christian Science seriously, in common with most young students, I talked about it to every friend, and amongst many others, I selected the matron of a large hospital. I knew her to be a very broad-minded Christian, therefore I was not surprised at her evincing great interest. I used to talk to her pretty frequently during that winter, and one day, some six weeks after our first conversatino, she told me that, during that little talk she had been healed of severe neuralgia in the arm, from which she had been suffering for some time past. It seems that my friend was subject to these attacks, and that this had been a particularly severe one, and that it had refused to yield to medical treatment. She could not use her arm much, and had to have assistance in dressing herself. She told me that while I was speaking to her, she felt that she was healed, and that she had put away her medicines, and had required no help that night or since.
She had told the doctor, who examined her arm, and remarked that the knots on the nerve were still there, but my friend said that anyhow they did not pain her. I believe that since then even the little knots have gone. That is four years ago. She tells me she has never had a return of the ailment, and that Christian Science has helped her in many other ways, although she has not yet taken it up as a study.
Another case of impersonal healing occurred about the same time; and took place also during the first conversation I had with another friend. In this case, also, it was not till some weeks afterwards that she told me that when I began telling her about Christian Science she was aching in every nerve. She had been up all night with a sick relative, and was feeling quite worn out. After one talk, she told me, every vestige of pain and weariness left her, and she felt a kind of warm glow of peacefulness.
