I have long wished to write to the Journal, and tell the great things that Truth has done for me, and I am now doing so while spending a short holiday in Wales.
I can truly say I have been brought "out of the land of Egypt," and "the house of bondage." Until four years ago I was more or less of an invalid, suffering from valvular heart disease and other complaints. I was constantly in the doctor's care, and was unable to walk much out of doors, or to exert myself in any way. I was weary of illness and doctors. I was taken to London at different times, and saw three different specialists, all of whom agreed that my diseases were incurable. The last one, however, sent me to Switzerland to live for a month amid the snow, mountains, and glaciers, to improve my general health, so as to prevent the disease from spreading still further.
The improvement was only temporary and I soon sank back to invalidism. I also suffered much mentally, as I could find no peace or comfort in religion, and my mental agony was so great that acute insomnia was added to my other troubles. While in this state, it suddenly came to me that the "Lord's hand is not shortened," and that even in these days, surely the prayer of faith must heal the sick; after vainly trying to heal myself, I prayed constantly for months to be led to a faith healer, if such an one existed. After some time I heard Science and Health mentioned as "a new-fangled system of faith healing." The book was loaned me at my request, and from the moment I first read it I knew my deliverance had come. All was now comparatively easy. After reading the book almost night and day we found a faithful healer and asked for treatment. The treatment was absent, and in two days from its commencement, I went for a long walk, and in another week was climbing hills in the lake district. Insomnia and many other claims have vanished, others still remain, but I know they must also go. My children have all taken Christian Science for their guide, and one of them was healed in three days of a severe attack of pneumonia by absent treatment, was given back to us from what was apparently the very gate of death. But the greatest help and blessing of all is the peace of God which has come into my life, and has made me understand the true meaning of, "O taste and see that the Lord is good!"
