Part 83 (2/2)
Many thanks for the good received from your books. When I commenced reading them, I was carrying about a very sick body. Your books have healed me. I am now in perfect health. People look at me with surprise, and say they do not understand it; but when they see the sick ones made well, they are not always willing to believe it.
MRS. JOSEPH TILLSON, South Hanson, Ma.s.s.
_Rev. M. B. G. Eddy:_-I add one more testimony of a cure from reading your book, ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” Five years ago I lay prostrate with piles and inflammation of the bowels. All the coating came off, apparently. A stricture was formed, beyond medical reach. I then lived in Chicago; one of the best physicians, who made a specialty of treating piles, attended me. The pain was relieved, but my bowels were inactive, and remained so until New Year's eve.
I determined to trust all to G.o.d, or die before I would take any more medicine, as I never had an action unless I took a free dose of some laxative. If I forgot to take the medicine one night, or allowed myself to be without it, I had a terrible sick headache for two or three days, and terrible backache. I never had backache at any other time, and the piles would be so much inflamed, in two days' time, that I could hardly tell where I suffered the worst.
Since I have learned to trust all to G.o.d, I have not had the least trouble with the piles, nor one twinge of the backache. I have an easy action of the bowels each morning. It was five days after I resolved to leave medicine alone, before a natural movement took place; and ever since I have been perfectly regular. It was a great effort for me to take that step, for I knew I was running the risk of throwing myself back into all misery, and perhaps into a worse state than before. By reading Science and Health, I learned that G.o.d was able to save the body as well as the soul, and I believed His promises were for me.
MATTIE E. MAYFIELD, Des Moines, Iowa
For the Cause of Truth, I submit the following testimonial for publication; may it bring _one_ more, at least, into the fold of divine Science! The truth, as it is stated in ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” has done much towards making our home the abiding-place of peace and harmony. I now write of the wonderful demonstration of Truth over the birth of my baby boy, two weeks ago. Sunday, September 23, we went for a long drive of three hours; at night I retired at the usual hour; toward morning I was given a little warning; when I awoke at seven o'clock, the birth took place. Not more than ten minutes after, I ate a hearty breakfast, and then had a refres.h.i.+ng sleep; at ten o'clock walked across the room while my bed was dressed; at twelve took a substantial dinner; most of the afternoon sat up in bed, without any support but Truth; at six in the evening dressed myself and walked to the dining-room, and remained up for two hours. Next morning I arose at the usual hour, and have kept it up ever since,-was not confined to my bed one whole day. The second day was out walking in the yard, and the third day went for a drive in the morning and received callers in the afternoon. If it had not been for the presence of my young hopeful, it would have been hard to believe that there had so recently been a belief of a birth in the house; but then, I was sustained by Love, and had no belief of suffering to take my strength away. Before baby was two weeks old, I cooked, swept, ran the sewing machine, etc., a.s.sisting with the housework generally. How grateful I am for the obstetrics of this grand Science! Mothers need no longer listen to the whispering lies of the old serpent, for the law of mortal mind is broken by Truth.
MRS. DORA HOSSICK, Carrolton, Mo.
My wife and I have been healed by reading your book, ”Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” We both feel very grateful to you.
Five months ago my wife gave birth to a child, without pain or inconvenience, has done all the housework since, and has been every minute perfectly well. Neither she nor the child have been ill,-as was constantly the case with former children,-so we have thought it right to name the child Glover Eddy.
We have been reading Science and Health nearly two years, and have sold several copies to others. We are reading the _Journal_ also this year.
Yours respectfully, JOHN B. HOUSEL, Lincoln, Neb.
_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 G.o.d 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,(9) I was healed of endometritis and prolapsus uteri of over twenty years' standing, p.r.o.nounced 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 it by getting subscribers for the _Journal_. It has gone with me everywhere I have been. I have been well ever since.
I had suffered from bodily ailments, but they were nothing compared to my mental trials. Grief, hatred, jealousy, and revenge had well-nigh bereft me of reason. I had lost a home of plenty, been reduced to almost abject poverty, and had become a cheerless woman,-could not smile without feeling I had sinned.
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