The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-20

troubles, throat disease, headache and
chronic colds.
These were the general conditions
governing me at the time when Christian
Science found me. 1 do not think 1 have
exaggerated in my description of the
above conditions.
Sometimes / plunged deeply into the
gaieties of life, in the hope of finding
happiness in some particular mental
state, through material means; but every
hope was only destined to become part of
my general experience, that nothing was
real or lasting or true, and the longer |
lived the more perplexed, unhappy ana
I'll I became.
One day, a memorable day In my his
tory, friend of mine noticed my condi.
ton, and | glad, of the opportunity to air
my woes, unburdened myself to him.
licked off my ailments to him with avsort
of morbid pride in the possession OF
so many diseases with unpronounceabe
names. l told him I had tried every
known remedial agent, medical, hygienl,,
philosophc but all in vain. He asked me
II had ever tried Christian Science. and
/ looked at him with smile of bland
superiority, mingled with pity. Why
Christian? and why Science? Being
Jew, l objected to the word Christian,
and being a materialist, | objected to
the association of the terms My friend
told me that Christians were those who
understood the Christ, Truth, whether
they were Jews or Gentiles.
Ashamed of my credullty, and yet
hoping against hope. | ushered myself
into the office of a Christian Science prac-
titioner There were two or three persons
waiting for treatment. and there was an
atmosphere of peace and calm about the
of al tn
for seating myself in a chair, 1 fell into
a sound sleep.
g 4 must have slept fully half an hour,
for when | awoke, the others had gone,
and a portly, smiling, business-like gem
tleman stood in the doorway of the inner
office and asked me what / wanted. l
did not know, and | told him so. He
asked me what he could do for me, and
I replied that | did not know that he
could do anything. He said | was quite
right, inasmuch as God does ALL l smiled
superiority. So far as / was concerned
God was a vague hypothetical abstrac-
ton. / was very positive. on this point,
and the gentleman, seeing | was so well
informed and had nothing to learn. did
not argue with me. on the contrary he
let me talk myself out and after l had
pretty well exhausted my catalogue Of
ills and woes, my Christian Science friend
calmly informed that Cod divine love,
would destroy them all If I wer willing
This, of course was arrant nonsense to
me. / had been willing for years, and
God. If He could have cured me, would
have done so. AS for divine love- saw
very little evidence of its existence.
"'With a marvellous exhibition of pa
tience the practitioner gently explained
that God did not create evil. and has no
consciousness of evil, for God is love, life
and truth, infinite mind would destroy
the false mental pictures that We're man.
ifesting themselves on my body, destroy
ing my peace and happiness and thus
creating all my apparent woes.
IA short time after this. my Christian
Science friend went away, and ] met am
other practitioner, lady. who treated
me for my various ailments. AS | have
said | was a man Of the world. a MEM
her of several clubs. social and literary
organizations, and numbered among my
friends many of the most prominent ply
sicians lawyers and artists. l was con-
firmed materialist, and yet / make the
following statement. fully realizing the
difficulty of it's being understood by those
who do not understand Christian Science.
indeed 1 myself would not. and could not.
I'm the light of my worldly training have
believed in such a contradiction of ac-
cepted thories and material laws before
7 studied Christian Science. All the same.
IL is true that from the time, ! received
these treatments, from the time | opened
and read that book, ] gradually indeed
almost Immediately, recovered my health,
my peace OF mind. professional and finan-
cial success. and happiness far beyond
my widest dream and have never taken
drug nor consulted physician since
that hour.
Under Christian science treatm all
traces Of kidney disease disappeared I
suffered no more from insomnia. | lost
my desire for alcoholic stimulants. and
stomach troubles which I had from boy