The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-23
ALBERT w. MATTO0N

duced me and then left.
 Well do I remember that interview. The first question I asked was, Do you pretend 10 say that Christian Sci ence can cure all kinds of diseases without any medicine whatever" Her answer was. T do. sir; and l am here to demonstrate and prove it to you.R l told her that I had telegraphed to New
 York for some medicine. but if she
 wanted to experiment on me while
 waiting for 1t, she could "sail in; that had but once to die. and she could
 not do any' more than kill me, and
 would just as soon die as not, for
 death would be preferable to the con- dition I was then in.
 She gave mo a treatment, and talked to me for an hour or more. As she was going to leave. l inquired about my diet-What she would recommend
 me to eat, etc, as had not dared to
 eat solid food for months. She laugh cd and said, Just eat anything you like, and all you want of it; it cannot hurt you" I said to myself, If you
 only knew the condition my bowels are in, you would not talk suchs sfoolishness
 as that to me" Soon after she left. | however, the pain began 10 disappear. and in the course of half an hour 1t
 was all gone and 1 began 10 feel hun- gry. By the time dinner was ready | Gust an hour and half from the time
 she left). was as hungry as a bear
 that had been "holed up all winter. It seemed as though could not wait for
 the dinner hour to come. But I did lnot dare to say anything, as my family
 were ignorant Of what had been done, | and knew that I was opposed 10 any 1 thing of the kind: as I had chased it
 in with spiritualism, mesmerism. efn | When sat down to the table, =A d
 to myself, T am going 10 see Ii sUu
 Nhe Scientis) can keen this dinner from hurting me" Boiled beef. cab
 bage. turnips, potatoes. pickles onions,
 bread and butter, etc, disappeared as l if by magic and I finished with quar-
 ter of a good sized pie and a cup of coffee In fact. I ate ill I could eat
 no more. I thought, If it gets to 1 hurting too bad. I will take a lot of
 morphine: and if it requires enough to
 give the undertakers a job, don't care
 I will he one good square meal ahead
 anyway" But the pain failed to ap-
 pear ard never has appeared from 1 that day to this. I have been able at
 all times to eat anything desired and
 all wanted of 1t, without the least I inconvenience whatever. Strange to
 say, my bowels did not move till the next mornin~ about 2 o'clock perfect
 ly normal just as though there had
 never been a thing the matter. Previ- ously, however. at times they would
 move every few minutes. attended with
 the most excruciating pain: and when saw that the signs of leprosy had
 nearly vanished, words could not ex.
 press my feelings of joy and gladness
 I saw that in healing sickness Chris.
 tan Science is as far ahead of medi'
 cine as the heavens are higher thar
 the earth. I resolved, then and there
 that, if it were possible for me tt
 learn how this wonderful work wa'
 done. was going to known how tt
 go and do likelse.
 My healer was to call again that
 afternoon at o'clock, but I could no wait, I was so anxious to tell her the good news put on my coat and ha
 and went at once to her house. She seemed almost as much surprised as was at the sudden turn in my case , and reioiced with me over the result l told her that she had proved hel , kow if it were possible for me to learf how it was done. She assured me } could, if l really wanted to. | tolf her that was one of the main object, of my visit, and l wanted to know . what l should do first. She said |, } study thoroughly the Bible ant Science and Health with Key to th, r Scriptures by Mary Baker G. Efdv l that it was all in those two books She kindly loaned me her Science ant : Health for few days till I could ge l one of my own. l shall never forge the first time l opened 1t and reat [ the first sentence in the pre.ace. | ' St6iHPu lp tbNtI Lllt Aiihlt RTDlln1, read it over and over again, and as l went on, analyzing every word ant ? every sentence I felt that at last I ha, l found the Key to the Scriptures r I studied day and night and at tn, 2 end of three months l had pon, l through it once. l gained steadily I
 health and strength. and increased i, ' weight from one hudred and te, Q pounds to one hundred and fert- Q pounds. l could stand more cold il = my shirt sleeves and slippers than T could before with overcoat. muif1er T arctic overshoes, and the heaviest Lin, y of flannel underwear. The cold. storm D weather did not seem to affect me i, }, the least.
 e In January. 1892, I went to Cleye y land, O., and received class instruc !. ton from one of Mrs Eddv,s Iowa a students. and began at once to prov e the superiority of this Science ave . material methods by the healing q |. rheumatism. paralysis. tumors of a t kinds, stiff joints. cancers. smallpo, I heart trouble. hernia, deafness. blind $ ness. etc. In fact. nearly every i |, that flesh is heir to has been met an o mastered through my little unde, q standing of Truth I woulI itl-. f g speak of one case in pa,... ,i,,r
 l. lady. eighty-one years old. han bee n suffering from the effects of I tgiI~, a l. accident for sixteen years. The i..- ' ankle and fo5t had been very bs ll :, crushed. The railroad surps,ns y.;