Testimonies of Healing

You are right. I do not believe I shall have any more trouble with beliefs, as I think the latent fear is vanishing.

Four years ago last fall I was healed of what my physician called consumption. We are farmers, and the question naturally arose: Is Science not good for animals, too? In the spring following, a valuable horse was taken with inflammation of kidneys.

Three years ago last February, while at Oskaloosa, my attention was first called to Christian Science. I thought, "what folly!" but after coming home, I thought more of it.

I was sick for two years, and was given up both by the family and the doctor. We were all without understanding, but I had seen the good that Science had wrought, in the healing of a lady friend by a Scientist of Nebraska, about a year since, though I could not understand it.

We want the Journal, as we cannot do without its blessed Truth. It has done much for me and my family.

I want to tell you how my daughter was cured through Christian Science, after the doctors had tried their skill for three weeks and failed. She is twenty-two years old, very bright and active, never having been sick in bed since a little child, yet is of a nervous temperament, and easily worried.

A little girl, nine years of age, while coasting, lost control of her sled, and was thrown with great force against a rock; the projecting edge of which, cutting through the stocking, inflicted a wound upon the fleshy part of the leg just above the boot, laying it open to the bone. I was immediately called and found her suffering a good deal of pain, and looking quite pale (in belief).

I was lately called to treat a child of thirteen, or thereabouts, somewhat instructed in Christian Science, apparently prostrated with the prevailing epidemic. Accustomed to a pleasant greeting from her, I was surprised and troubled for an instant, to find her apparently, in a state of collapse and seemingly dead to what was passing about her.

Having tried the treatment of animals without apparent success, I was much gratified to read and test the mode of I. P.

My Dear Teacher :—We have gone back into the practice again. We gave it up for a few months, because it had assumed such large proportions we could not handle it, and at the same time teach and get time to study.