I have been greatly benefited by some of the testimonies of healing given in the Christian Science Sentinel, and believe it is a duty we owe to God and to mankind to testify, when Truth has done as much for us as it has for me. During the winter of 1888 and 1889, while attending a school of languages in New York City, T was overtaken by the grip. It was the first winter of that dread disease, and I was one of its first victims. This attack of the grip resulted in nervous prostration and paralysis of the left side, also of the bladder and bowels. All was done for me that medical aid could do, but the disease was pronounced incurable. I was removed on a bed to Vermont, where I was in a physician's home, under his special care, but from January till the last of March no food could be retained in my stomach excepting a little cocoa. The bladder was entirely paralyzed, instruments being used three times daily till that feature of the disease seemed to grow better: but the bowels remained paralyzed, and I had no use of the left hand nor limb.
In the fall I was removed to Ohio and placed under the care of another physician with much the same result, only I grew able to sit up and be taken out on a tricycle, though not able to walk at all. In 1894 my bowel trouble was relieved to some extent, and I recovered the use of my limb, but the trouble in my head never left me. I, however, existed in this state of torment until the summer of 1899 when I was again prostrated by another stroke of paralysis. This time the attack was principally in my face and eyes. I lost my sight and taste, and my face was badly drawn. My neck would not support my head.
It was at this time that I turned to Christian Science. I had heard about it for some years from a sister-in-law who had been healed and was very earnest in the work. She had written me of the benefit she daily received from it, but I had never taken any account of it as a living truth; however, when the physician said, "I can do you no good,' and I don't believe there can be anything done for you; possibly hospital treatment might make your neck able to support your head, but it is spinal trouble and it is only a question of a short time till the end will come. You will never walk any more:" I said to myself, "I will; God can make me well, and He will."
