Evening journal., 1908-05-28

ter, through the ministrauOnS or
Christian Science, was Immediately
Joined by a friend, and together they
literally went out into the "by-ways'
following the Masters command, "Gol
ye into all the world and preach the
Gospel to every creature" "HeaN the
sick"
In my practice were several patients
suffering from organic incurable dis
ease; some of them in the helpless con-
dition decided to try Christian Science.
one young man had suffered Tor about
two years from traumatic disease of
the knee joint This joint was very
much enlarged and the various com
ponent parts were little else than a
mass Of pulpy swelling. The surgeons
lin the inhrmary he was attending
told him that the only cure was ex-
cision of the whole joint, bringing the
healthy upper and lower parts of the
limbs together and letting them unite,
leaving him with a leg shortened by
several inches and stiff We surgeons
considered this course as a practical
success, but the patient felt he
would like to keep his whole" limb
and therefore turned to those who held
out hope to him. He consulted "A
Christian Science practitioner and was
absolutely healed there and then. q
myself personally examined this JOIN
the day before and the day after his
healing, and can testify to the conoi-
tion and to the complete healing result
ing from one Christian Science treat
nent.
patient had been under my care
more or less, for over six years, suffer-
ing from organic disease of the valves
of the heart steadily growing worse
most Of the time. The last attack
had nearly proved fatal. This was
another case of rapid healing when
Christian Science was tried. One day
she was going about in a bath chaii.
the next, working hard from early
morning in her Jwn cottage home
This patient entered my household as
housemaid a few weeks after ner heal
ing, and has remained with us all the
six years working as hard as any wo-
man could do. rejoicing each day IN
the unfolding Of the Truth which has
set her free.
! could go on enumerating case after
case of similar physical and organic
disease. being healed by Christian
Science prayer and also cases of abiect
slavery to sinful habits and cravings.
have also been able to keep myself
well through Christian science. and
now / always take the medicine I re-
commend to others-the medicine OF
/ Mind. While Christian Science was do
/ ing such good work among my medical
patients, / began to study its text book
and soon found that my thought was
changing; that the diseases I vas
called in to trea q" uld be heated more
quickly by Christian Science, with
the inevitable result that it was i'm
possible to serve two masters One
had 10 go, and believing Christian
! Science to be Truth, and seeing IT
time after time healing where medi-
cine failed, my lot was thrown with
those vino practiced the principles OF
Christian Sciencs step which helped
me to gain some small understanding
of what Diety is.
The following details OF case which
happened some yeer ani half after
ceasing to practice medicine. and every
step of which passed under my per-
sonal observation, are a wonderful
testimony of the power of Truth to
heal.
The patient suffered for twenty
years from a form of paralysis and
control over her limbs. the latter eight
years being completely paralyzed in
the lower limbs and partially in the
arms, and she was so helpless that
others had TO carry her down stairs to
her couch or bath chair in the morn
ing and upstairs to bed at night, when
she was well enough to leave her bed
at all
The attending medical man at this
period, when asked of his opinion OF
the future progress of the disease, re-
lplied plainly in effect, that there was
lno hope of any cure, but a very grave
fear that she would steadily grow
worse and that a fatal termination in
the near future was not at all improb
lable-and then he followed this M
with a strong recommendation to her
TO try Christian Science, because ne
had known of a case in his practice
} of partial spinal paralysis being healed
by this treatment.
The patient, after consulting with
her relatives and also with the ous
healed by Christian Science, TO whom
her doctor had referred, applied for
Christian Science treatment.
I During the first treatment given, the
Christian Scientist had the joy OF
witnessing the active return OF move
meht in the paralyzed limbs at first
in an involuntary and uncomfortable
swinging of the legs under the bed
clothes. There had been no move
ment of these limbs for nearly eigh;
years. In the early morning after
the Scientists visit. which had been
paid in the evening, the patient made
her sister get up, light the gas and
help her out of he'd, saying size "feli
sure she could walk" She arose and
; walked around her bed. Their great
! JOY may be imagined.
The healing was so rapid that in
two or three days she was able to sc