The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-09-25

When | left he was perfectly conscious
and hopeful. as I told him | would bring
him some pretty flowers On my return
l returned about one o'clock, gave him
| the flowers which he noticed with pleas
ure. In a little while l went out TO speak
with his mother as she sat with a lady
who lived in the house. She said to me
How is my boy?" I replied, he has fe-
yer. but he is in a natural good perspira-
ton. he is perfectly conscious, his breath
ing is wholly natural and he is resting
quietly. Every morning until Friday he
had said he was better.
as l talked with his mother she looked
at me and asked if l thought l could
carry the case. l told her God was the
Healer. | could rot speak for Him, but I
did not doubt Him, | did not doubt
Christian Science. That God, who was
the only power, had raised him the week
before from a worse condition as she
knew. But I said: MY dear woman, if
you are not satisfied and wish other help
send for it. He is your child and if I
were you and wished every physician in
town l should have them and if YOU
row wish one l will go at once for anyone
you may choose She answered.: Then
you say give up Christian Science and
send for a physician My reply was: NO,
did not say that, l said if you wish TO
give up and have one, do SO, and l Will
go for the one decide upon
She went for a friend to get him. AS
she started l said to her then: You know
| now give up the case, or at least you
give up Science On her return | advised
her to wait quietly until her doctor
should arrive and take him quietly to the
child, as the young ladies were with him
attending 20 his wants, and l would go
fer my own mother to help nurse him.
Not until she vent to her friends cid I
ever know she had called for DR.. Duguid.
| She had not told me of this. AS her
young friend went for the NJ. D. / went
with her: SO it must be seen that the
| statement of my being in the house was
another mis-statement. as was also the
supposed conversation between the mother
and the Scientists in the boys room, and
all the other reports.
1t would seem that the reporter might
have spared any mistakes being made,
for in collecting the facts for a correct
presentation to the public at large, glad
ly would [ have given him my own part
in it truthfully, as also would any otbe~
| Scientist there.
I have been censured for giving orders
to keep company from the sick room. Ii
any one had seen the case on Tuesday,
August 28th, not one word would have
been said. He was taken in hard Won
Wilson's when I reached him; his tongue
was paralyZed, eyes set wild with fright.
Soon the treatment changed conditions for
the better but for two days, until Thurs
Gay morning, 3 q. M. he was uncon-
scious. his teeth Clinched. with q high
fever. The mother expressed great graf
itude and said she felt Christian Science
had saved his life, and hat no powar but
God could have done it. He said he felt
perfectly Well. a little weak. He was
given no~rishment and was rapidly recOv-
ering when l saw him on Friday. After
| such an experience, and with a child who
had commissions when in fever. it was
only proper treatment to keep him quiet.
lie made no request to me to see any
one, or it would have been granted, if he
felt it would have made him happy. On
Sunday he was taken with fever again. |
feel that every human being has q right
to Life, liberty and the pursuit OF hap
piness,' and in this age Of progress each
one should have. q right to worship God
after the dictates Of his own conscience.
/, AS Christian Scientists our one aim is to
fulfill the Golden Rule, CAS- We would that
men should DO to you, do we even SO unto
them" l only had charge of the case,
because the child's mother sent for ne,
and the child 100 desired it, and l have
witnesses that l told her she could have
q physician from the first at any time,
because she had said to me: If you could
not have come at once. when he was SO
sick on Tuesday, | would have had to
have q DOCTOR She was free to do as she
thought best then, and when she decided
to give my help up I felt she had a right
to 60 so.
Christian Science is not in any way
Hypnotism, Mesmerism. Theosophy, or
any form of mind cure wherein one human
mind controls another, or suggests it's
own thoughts to another as q claim of
personal power, although this seems to be
the false impression among those who ara
ignorant of its true Principle and purpose.
the destruction of sin, which brings its
myriads of discords-sickness and death.
In Christian Science we do not work
from a basis OF ignorance Of disease and
Of a blind and ignorant faith in super
natural power. but from a thorough
knowledge of the real cause Of disease,
ard understanding of the principle of life,
which can solve all problems in a human
existence.
We by no means ignore disease, but we
DO treat it and usually destroy it as many
IN this community, and not far away who
had suffered for years under other care.
but have been healed through Christian
science, can testify-myself for one.
For nearly nine years, | was
with a right hand and arm prac-
tically useless-with the knell sounded
incurable, as it was pia%no-paralysis; to-
Gay it is in a perfect state OF usefulness,
perfectly healed through this understand
ing. AS taught in Science and Health
with key to the Scriptures by Mary Paker
Eddy together with the Bible, all may
learn thereof and be blessed.
God is my judge, and can truly for
give every ore who has unjustly accused,
misunderstood or misrepresented me and
say in the words of His only begotten Son,
Father forgive them, they know not
what they do"
1t must be the hour for us to learn our
lesson from the words Of our Masters
saying, and be chcercd and comforted in
our effort to stand for the ornipotence
and divine presence of God, Supreme Cod
and as q follower OF Jesus Christ to stand
for the healing mission which he taught
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