My Dear Friend: — I am glad to comply with your request to write you about my healing in Christian Science. I hope that the account may encourage your friend to try Science and trust that he may receive like benefits. To me it has been not only a healer but a regenerator; in fact, it has transformed my whole life.
When six years of age maltreatment of the mumps on the left side (the right side having been successfully handled the year previous) left me deaf in my left ear. Consultations with doctors, and treatment therefrom during the years following up to the time I was twelve years of age, together with the loving care of watchful parents, did not succeed in overcoming the trouble. It was decided by specialists in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago that the tympanum was perforated and that hearing in that ear was totally destroyed.
Frequently the right ear, during the application of remedies to its mate, and in sympathy with it, seemingly closed up, so that I had hard work to hear anything. When manipulation was finally dropped, the right ear became natural. For thirty years, affected by the varying conditions of atmosphere and physique, the right ear heard more or less distinctly, but was getting into a discordant state, and hearing was getting more difficult with advancing years. A sudden bereavement, the loss of our beautiful daughter, in 1898, gave me such a shock that the right ear closed up so that I could hardly hear anything. I have been so deaf I could not hear a band of music in the same room with me. Shortly after this, my wife and I withdrew to a quiet spot in the country. My wife had been investigating Christian Science for some time, and had carried with her Science and Health. At this time I commenced reading, and at the suggestion of my wife, placed my case in the hands of a Christian Science practitioner. I was under treatment thirteen months, and during this time studied Christian Science from one to seven hours daily. I attended the Sunday morning services always, an occasional evening service, and all the Wednesday evening meetings. Now and then I heard imperfectly what was said in my immediate neighborhood.
