With great joy I write of my healing by Christian Science, after I had been an invalid ten years, when "a friend in need" came to prove that "man's extremity is God's opportunity," and that nothing is impossible with God. I had many of the best physicians, of different schools, who did all they could to relieve my suffering, which was intense, and to cure me. Then I had a surgical operation at the birth of my boy. My disease and suffering, however, were so general and complicated that I cannot enter into pathological details; but I was reduced to extreme emaciation and bloodlessness. I had joined a church when very young, and I requested its prayers for my recovery, but a dear sister in the church brought me the address of a Christian Science practitioner from a young lady who had been healed after having been given up to die. The practitioner was absent at the time, and I was referred to another, who explained to me in a short time that the Father is divine Principle, and the Christ the manifestation of ever-present and omnipotent Life, Truth, Love. She also gave me treatment, in silent prayer; then I walked across the room and sat in a chair without any cushions. I lost all sense of the body, and it was glorious "to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," to realize the meaning of Christ Jesus' words: "The kingdom of God is within you," "The kingdom of heaven is at hand." In one week I drove to our nearest town, and in two weeks I went six miles to meet the practitioner at the home of an acquaintance who had been confined to bed a year. She too had been healed. Soon after that I went a distance of fifteen miles, and surprised my friends.
I have enjoyed good health ever since, and have been able to do hard work. My invalidism and healing were widely known in Wisconsin and Illinois, and very many, through witnessing the same, have been led to Christian Science and healed. My sister and my mother were healed of headaches, and the latter of a severe attack of illness affecting her side, heart, lungs, and throat, while a distressing cough was overcome with Christian Science treatment in a short time.
We feel very grateful for our understanding of life in God, who healeth all our diseases, for Christ Jesus, who did the works of the Father and taught that the healing was for them that are afar off as well as for those who are near, even "unto all generations." I am, moreover, truly thankful to Mrs. Eddy, who has again demonstrated the truth taught and practised by Christ Jesus, and who gave us the Christian Science literature.— Kenosha, Wis.
