two years, and have sold several copies to others. We are reading the Journal also this year.
Dear Mother: — The most blessed of women! Oh,
how I long to sit within range of your voice and hear the
truth that comes to you from on high! for none could
speak such wondrous thoughts as have come from your
pen, except it be the Spirit that speaketh in you.
Two years ago last October, while laboring under a great strain of care and anxiety in regard to financial affairs, I heard of Christian Science, I borrowed “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” and began to read. I bless God that I was driven to it by such an extremity. After reading some one hundred and fifty pages, I was convinced that it was the truth for which I had searched during twenty years. While I was reading the chapter on Imposition and Demonstration,[1] I was healed of endometritis and prolapsus uteri of over twenty years' standing, pronounced incurable by eminent physicians. Professor Ludlam, the dean of Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, Ill., was one of my doctors.
Before I was healed, to walk seven or eight blocks would so fatigue me that it would take me a week to recover. I now started out and walked, and was on my feet all day and for several succeeding days, but felt no weariness from my labors.
I felt, after being healed, I must have a Science and Health of my own. I had no money to buy it, so earned
- ↑ Page 234, revised edition of 1890.
