I have had some demonstrations to make over error, but each time it becomes easier. God is ever present and ready to help me, and I trust in Him; my faith is planted on a rock that is immovable.
P. S. If you think this letter, or any part of it, will help some one out of darkness into the light of Truth, you are at liberty to have it published.
Having so many occupations and interruptions, I have
not found time to read “Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures” sufficiently, but will not on that account
delay thanking you for its excellence.
I am an old-school practitioner; have served as surgeon
in two European wars; practised medicine for about
ten years in New York city and Brooklyn, until my health
compelled me to relinquish my profession. I became
a victim of the morphia habit, taking daily thirty grains
of that drug. My physicians declared me consumptive,
and abandoned all hopes of recovery. Shortly after
this I made the acquaintance of a student of the author
of “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,”
who presented me with her works; and as drugs did me
no good, I stopped taking any whatever, save morphia,
without which I thought it impossible to get along, and
to my astonishment began to gain in flesh, and my
ambition returning in proportion. I finally felt that I would
stop my loathsome habit of morphia-eating, and did so
