Page:Miscellaneous Writings.djvu/425



The Editor of The Christian Science Journal (Falmouth and St. Paul Streets, Boston, Mass.) holds the original of most of the letters that authenticate these

T is something more than a year and a half since I was cured of a complication of diseases through reading “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.”

Becoming at an early age disgusted with drugs, I learned hygiene, and practised it faithfully for over twenty years; then I began to lose all faith in its efficacy, became greatly discouraged, and, as I had never been cured of a single ailment, I rapidly grew worse in health. Hearing of this, a dear sister brought me Science and Health. Her admonition was, “Now read it, E——; I have heard that just the reading of that book has been known to heal the sick.”

I had read to, and through, the chapter on Healing and Teaching, and was so deeply interested that I began reading that blessed chapter over again, — when I found I was cured of my dyspepsia, that I could use my strength in lifting without feeling the old distressing pain in my side, and also that the pain in the kidneys only came on