For eight long, weary years I was a great sufferer from female weakness with all its accompanying train of ills. Part of the time I was bedfast; for six months I never sat up at all, and could not do any work when at my best. I tried several doctors before they diagnosed my case right; then I tried several specialists in our own, and in other cities. Sometimes I would become able to be about the house and walk a little, and then would get worse again. I tried every remedy I could hear of, including electricity, with no permanent benefit. I was so discouraged, and tired of dragging out such a miserable existence, that at times I feared I was losing my mind but thanks be to God, He sent His word and healed me and delivered me out of all my distresses. The half of my sufferings can never be told, but Christian Science came to me through a neighbor who had been very much as I was. I heard she was being treated by Christian Science, and I thought she was chasing a phantom till I saw her doing work which would have been impossible in her former condition. I was then taking treatment of a specialist who had been treating me for two years with very little benefit. This neighbor told me she was well, and I asked her if I could be lifted out of the slough of despond that I was in. When she said that I could, hope sprang up within me, though I thought it too good to be true.
I began taking treatment at once, and in less than three weeks I was perfectly healed. It was such a strange thing, and as I had never heard of Christian Science before I did not say much about my healing, for fear it would not last; but it is now nearly seventeen years, and I have never had a pain in my back since, where it was constant before; nor any symptom of the old disease. Words can never express half the gratitude I owe to dear Mrs. Eddy for what Christian Science has done for me, for since then I have been healed of cancer of the breast and asthma of two years' standing. The latter was healed by reading an article in the Journal, and the healing must have been instantaneous, for when I laid down the book to my great joy I found that I was perfectly healed. This was about five years ago, and there has not been the slightest return of the trouble since. When I read the testimonies in our periodicals I never doubt them for a moment, because I know from experience that the half can never be told. I hope this may catch the eye of some sufferer who may be led to this beautiful truth that makes free indeed.
Wichita, Kan.
