The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-04-30
DEMONSTRATE
RELIGION.
Frank H. Leonard LeCturcd on
Christian Science at
OPERA HOUSE SATURDAY EVENING.
LARGE Audience EvinCcS Much In
tereSt In Subject
Published by request.)

The following is a synopsis of the
lecture delivered in the Opera House
last Saturday evening. April 18th, by
Frank II. Leonard, c. S. b., of Brook
lyn, New York. Mr. Leonard is a mem
Der Of the Christian Scientis Board
of Lecturers OF the First Church of
Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Massachu-
sets and was introduced by John d.
Carl of Watertown.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Christian Science Board of Lee.
tureship. of which | have the honor
of being a member, has been organiZ-
ed and instituted, under the direction
of Mrs. Eddy, for the purpose Of af-
fording those really desirous of know.
ing what Christian Science is, and
what it teaches and does for mankind,
an opportunity to get this knowledge
through an authorized channel.
me work of this board is supreme
ly educational, and is accomplishing
the uplifting of mankind to a plane
of thought whereon it finds it possible
to accept God as being Infinite Good,
without making any reservation, either
as to Himself or His creation.
Many people approach the study of
Christian Science, or demonstrable
Christianity, with the feeling that,
while it may do and has done much
for some of their friends, it cannot do
SO for them because the lack any
skeptical. | am going to tell you how
absolute without faith or even
knowledge | was, when | first went
for Christian Science treatment: how
absurd it seemed to me, and what it
did for me regardless Of all this.
| was born with an incurable organ
ic disease, according to the physicians
and up to the Ilme when Christian
Science was presented to me had never
known day of freedom from pain or
suffering. | had taken medicine by
the quart, all the allopathic way. and
by the attenuated hundreth part of
drop, the hOmeOpa,.-.c way, and then
alternately the two ways, and that was
eclectic, and the conclusion of the
physicians was that dissolution was
at hand.
At this point in my experience |
was told new way of treating disease
was being used with wonderful results
That people calling themselves Chris
tian Scientists were saying that Gods
Word had not lost its power to de-
stroy sin, disease and death 1t was
suggested, as everything else had fail.
ed. mat | try this new way as it
might benefit me.
| had tried everything else and was
willing to try this, so went for my
first Christian Science treatment with
out the slightest idea as to what was
going to be done to me. When
reached the home of the practitioner
VINO had been recommended to me,
| was compelled to wait some time
because of the many ahead of me.
When my turn came | was usnered
into a small room and asked to be
seated in a chair as far removed from
the one in which the practitioner sat
as the size of the room would permit.
The first question asked was What
seems to be the matter with you?"
| felt ] was adding insult to injury
to ask me what seemed to be the
matter with me. and told the prac-
titioner, who was woman. the ply
Sicians said had an incurable disease.
telling her what name they had given
IL. She talked to me for a few mo-
monts, and then said, | will treat
You. Then she seemed to go to
sleep for about fifteen minutes. She
closed her eyes and commenced rock
ing gently back and forth in her chair
The belief that she could do me anv
good while we were sitting at OBJ
pOsite ends of the room began to
strike me as being too funny for any
thing and at last | was compelled to
stuff my handkerchief in my mouth
TO avoid the discourtesy of laughing
in her face. After a while she woke
up, and said; II will see you tomor-
row at he same time" I thought she
would not had no intention OF ever
going back there. asked her how
much owed her, and she told me. and
as ! paid her | though it was the
casiest dollar | had ever been sep.
arated from Then | went home: |
went to my room, and there on the
shelf was the tonic the family physi-
clan told me it was as much as my
life was worth to go without. | fully