The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-18
Chri.tin. science Again.

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Christinn Science Again.
As truth is often stranger than fiction
so it sometimes happens that people ad-
nit things of themselves more suTpris-
ing than anything others could invent
concerning them. Witness the following
extract from an article in the Christian
Science Journal
lone night WAS awakened by my husband tell
ing me that our little girl two years old. hat
the GROUP. | Immediately arose. took her up ana
began realizing tfe truth for her. My husband
who is not Scientist. hut who can say that
he has outgrowu many old beliefs. was seizct
with fear. and said something must be done fol
the child right away. | requested him Il
read Science and Health aloud. Aftei
reading two o. three paragraphs he said, Ism
that beautiful. ] soon saw that all fea,
was gone, and in few seconds the child vom;ted
and was relieved She soon fell asleep and was
TO sleep. however, the little one began again that
hcarse. peculiar cough 1t then flashed over me
that | had Eot given thanks 10 God for what had
been done. l arose again and read my Bible
and Science and Health for little while, Civ
ing ali praise TO God My little one in the mean
time fell asleep again. and awoke the next morn
ing brieh, and happy, the Group having entirely
gone
Here We have tale which. if told by
some enemy of Christian Science. would
run the chance of being branded by the
it appears in their own duly accredited
organ, and therefore they can find no
fault with its accuracy.
This anecdote concerns case OF Group
We are asked 10 believe that mother
awakening in the night to find her child
suffering from this complaint, and urged
by the father to do something for Its re-
lief. began realizing the truth for her.
Any nurse. and in fact, anyone who,
even If not a mother. has ever seen n
child with an attack OF Group. knows that
it is disease which has to be treated
without loss of time. There is often
danger that without immediate attent on
a child suffering from Group will die be-
fore the doctor can be called. Of course.
most cases do not result so disastrorsly
as this, but, all the same, this is not
COMPLAINT which it is safe TO neglect for
very long. Yet this woman calmly sat
down and made her husband read
book to her. One loses the respect
for him which may have been inspired
by his concern for the child's SAFETY on
learning that after few minutes OF in
struction in the great and glorious truths
of faith-cure he said it was beautiful and
stopped worrying. Soon after this the
symptoms of Group disappeared and the
mother went back to sleep the sleep OF
the lust. She found. however, that the
patient had suffered relapse. and 1t &C.
CURED to her that she had not been sufii-
GENTLY polite to the Creator of heaven
and earth. and that he was taking this
way to remind her gently of the propriety
OF saying thank you" when helped out
of scrape. Thereupon, she remedied the
omission and all was peaceful and Sc
rene. The irreverent may think that 1t
would have been more in accord with the
laws of eternal justice il the Almighty
had rebuked the mother for her want Of
by giving her cold in the head
instead of treating the child 10 second
attack of the Group. but the mind OF
Christian Scientist moves in peculiar
ways, and perhaps that idea of God seems
rea sonable to him.
1t is almost impossible to believe that
such stuff as this is seriously offered to
an intelligent public as proof that when
a two-year- old baby is i'll it is due to
want of faith on the part of the par
ents Yet SO it is. The Christian Scien-
list believes that he can cure anything un-
;ar tho eup nv his owp individual taliow
ray Of faith-that his faith is remedy
for every evil, from toothache to the
'ule of the trusts. But the average moth
n will be inclined 10 believe that this
particular case vas not just as repre-
sented. Either that child did not
have the Group or the whole thing is a
ie Group is not cured by neglect.