For the benefit of those who do not seem to receive physical benefit when first coming to Christian Science for treatment, I wish to relate my case of healing pronounced incurable by several of the finest oculists in the United States.

When a child I had astigmatism of the eyes. I was placed under the care of an oculist, one who stood at the head of the profession in the United States; but as time progressed I grew worse, and was brought home from college, at the age of fourteen years, almost a total wreck, as straining my eyes had brought on severe nervous attacks.

First I had to give up my music, then my painting, then the languages. After recuperating for a few months, I would return to college, but always with the same result, having to leave before the close of the term on account of my eyes.

This went on for years. I was directed to wear glasses, and was told if I saw a ray of light without them it might produce total blindness. I traveled far and wide, having several of the most noted oculists in the United States treat me; finally, at the close of 1895, while traveling on the Pacific coast, I went totally blind. This so affected my general health, which had never been good, that the M. D.'s on the coast gave up my case. Later I came East under the care of a professional nurse. I could at times distinguish between light and darkness, but was still blind as far as the use of my eyes was concerned. Getting worse, I tried electricity, then a magnetic healer, still receiving no benefit. I visited celebrated springs, whose waters were said to be a sure cure for any affection of the eyes, but all to no avail.

At this time a friend wrote to me to try Christian Science. I knew nothing of it, and had no faith in it, but I went to a Scientist as soon as I reached Kansas City. I felt, indeed, like a second Job. A few weeks previously I had fallen and broken my ankle. I was also suffering from a severe nervous sick headache, and was almost totally blind. I suffered terrible pain in my eyes, and would be kept under the influence of opiates for two or three days at a time, wholly unconscious. All this time the prayers of a loving family were being offered daily for me, and I often wondered they were not answered, as all my family were devoted church members.

During my first conversation with my healer I said, "I do not expect to be cured, as I have no faith in Christian Science." Her only reply was, "You have a little faith, or you would not have come for treatment."

I boarded with her and was under treatment for a month, and at the end of the month I could not see that I was any better. I was almost ready to give up in despair, still I kept on. I employed a Scientist to read to me every day. At the end of eleven weeks I returned home, reading and seeing everything. I have never had on a pair of glasses since I took my first treatment. I returned in a few weeks and took class instruction, and I will now say that I can read and study eight or ten hours a day, and far into the night, when necessary, and never have a pain or darkness come over my eyes. I realize more and more each day that God will cure every case, no matter what the physical claim may be, if we will not weary in well doing and will "let patience have her perfect work."

Mrs. Fanny C. Brady, St. Louis, Mo.