Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-01
TWO STORIES.

The Age Herald inaugurated a discus
 sion of Christian science several days
 since and the discussion has proven very
 entertaining. There is no doubt but that
 Christian science is gaining adherents
 every day in all pants of the country,
 and it is one of the living questions of
 the day. Its successes seem wonderful;
 it's failures are sometimes deplorable
 The following two stories illustrate the
 strength and weakness of Christian sci
 ence:
 At a Washington dinner table last
 winter lady let fell a rather contempt
 uous reference to Christian science. The
 gentleman sitting next to her was a
 highly successful citizen of 2 big Western
 city. a man still young, but rich, and
 very well known through his own labors
 and exertions He said to her. When I speak of Christian science 1 speak more
 respectfully than you do.' And then he
 went on to tell her why. You see my
 wife there he said; she doesn't look
 much like a blind woman, does she? A
 year or two ago she was fast going blind. l took her to New York to Lon
 don, to Paris, to Vienna The doctors
 said they could not help her. She had been used to read and to sew. She had
 to give both up, and the prospect of to- tai blindness seemed to be closing in on her. 1 had been very hard worked my
 self and it had told on me. got so that
 l could not sleep. l went daily to my of flee, but l had to be carried in. l trav- eled, but without much resulting ben eft. I consulted the most competent doctors, but not much to my advantage. l had come to be in the desperate mood Of a man who had tried everything, when it was suggested to me to have go at Christian science. Well, 1 did; and 1t cured me. I don't know how. l have never been able to understand the meth od but I can lie down on the floor now at any time and go to sleep in ten min
 utes. Then my wife tried 1t. One day Il came home and found her sewing. She had not used a needle before in two years Now she sew7s and reads and uses her eyes as you and do ours. They are cured"
 That was one story. Here is another: Tn New York, two months ago, man named Brown was introduced to man named Smith, from the city of Buckeye, in Ohio Brown said to Smith I went to school with a fellow from your town ma med Albert Weed Do you know him! :! I do know him. said Smith, and have always known him. He lives in Buckeye still but is in bad odOr there now. Some l years ago he and his wife took up strenu- ously with Christian science. They had childern and for a good while Christian | science agreed well with all the family. At length one of the children, a girl | about lO years Olu Was ldheh siSh anu complained of pain in her head. They | had no physician, but treated her by | Christian science methods, assuring her | that pain did not exist, and that she had no pain in her head or elsewhere. The | child got worse, but their faith was | strong. They did not yield to the belief | in her illness, but kept her up and about, and even took her out to drive. though l she moaned with pain, and her condl- | ton was so obvious that it distressed and | enraged the neighbors Soon, she dlea. | If turned out then that she had had an | abscess somewhere in her head, which l made any motion aSonizing to her. | Weed was arrested and tried for man slaughter because of his neglect to give | his child proper care. He was acquitted, | but was expelled from the Buckeye Club, and has been cut ever since by all his | old acqualntances at home.
 The Age-Herald does not vouch for the correctness of either of these stories.