Having received great benefits through reading the testimonies of others, I feel that I would indeed be ungrateful to withhold mine any longer. Christian Science was first brought to my notice through a son whose eyes had been greatly benefited by the truth presented to him by a faithful practitioner and through the study of Science and Health. At this time my daughter was suffering from dropsy. The doctors did not hold out any hope of her recovery so we wrote to a Christian Science practitioner in Chicago for help. She began treatment at once with the result that a few days later my daughter was healed of this condition.
As I was suffering from neuritis in the right arm, also from nervous chills and other ailments, I asked for absent treatment from the same practitioner. The healing of the arm was slow, but some of the other ills were instantaneously overcome, and a small growth was dissolved without pain or discomfort. I was also troubled with torpid liver, weakness of the heart and kidneys, bladder trouble, chronic bronchitis, and every winter I would have grippe and be left in a weakened condition for months. These ailments were all overcome through the application of the truth. I had tried many doctors, also faith cures, but was helped only temporarily.
A year later, while in Chicago visiting my sons, I arose one morning feeling as if I had taken a slight cold. I read some in Science and Health during the morning and in the afternoon went to visit the practitioner whose understanding of the truth had freed me from my former ills. Before reaching her home I became worse so when I arrived there she thought I had better remain with her. She lovingly began treatment, but at first I seemed worse, and for several days remained in a comatose condition. A Christian Science nurse was then engaged. During this sickness I became deaf but my hearing was fully restored within three weeks. The disease was overcome in ten days with the exception of a slight weakness, which lasted a while longer.
