Letters to the Editor

For six years I was a sufferer, spending the greater part of my time in bed, never free from pain day or night, brought on through childbirth. I fought desperately for life, as I had small children and felt I could not leave them without a mother.

Dear Journal: —I desire to mention a few of the demonstrations that have been made since coming to this place three years ago. Error has many times screamed loud and long, has tried to drive us out, and failing, has even solicited us to leave.

Salt Lake City, Dec. 15, 1808.

In the summer of 1892 I was instantaneously healed of an organic trouble and of nervous prostration by a conversation with one of Mrs. Eddy's loyal students.

Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, Concord, N.

For two and one-half years I was unable to walk, most of the time bed-ridden, with what six of the best physicians of Fort Worth said was floating kidneys, caused by a fall; also curvature of the spine, chronic sciatica, rheumatism, lumbago, and female troubles. The suffering was so great that I could not be touched.

For seven years I was in bondage to physical suffering, much of the time unable to be around. I was then living in western Nebraska, but, anticipating great help from a doctor in my old home in Illinois, I went back in the spring of 1893.

I suffered , among numerous other severe troubles, such as indigestion, rheumatism, catarrh, etc. , with chalky deposits in my shoulder joints so that they were perfectly stiff, and all other joints in my arms and hands were nearly so; also atrophy of the muscles of the arms and shoulders, accompanied with insomnia.

Christian Science first came to my notice through the healing of a dear sister in Oakland, California, who wrote me that she had been healed without medicine. I feared that it was not according to Scripture, but I read and re-read her loving letters in which she was trying to show me that to heal without material medicine was in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ, and did agree with the Bible.

Up to the time I was thirty-five years of age, I had very little to complain of the way of health and I used my strength to the best of my ability in trying to help fill our "barns" so that some day I, too, might say, "Soul, thou hast goods laid up for many years, take thine ease eat drink, and be merry. " I tried at the same time to be a good mother, a good neighbor, and do my duty as far as I knew but I had no God I could love or understand.