Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-08

ter, through the ministrations Of
Christian Science, was Immediately
joined by a. friend, md together they
literally went out into the "byways"
following the Masters command, go
we into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature" Heal the
sick"
In my practice were several patients
suffering from organic incurable dis
ease; some of them in their helpless
condition decided to try Christian Sci
ence. One young man had suffered for
about two years from traumatic dis
ease of the knee joint. This joint was
very much enlarged and the various
component parts were little else than
a mass of pulpy swelling. The sur
geons in the infirmary he was attend
ing told him that the only cure was
excelsior of the whole joint, bringing
the healthy upper and lower parts of
the limb together and letting them
unite, leaving him with leg shortened
by several inches and stiff. We sur
geons considered this course as prac-
teal 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 Chris
tian Science practitioner and was alb
solutely healed there and then. | my
self personally examined this joint the
day before and the day after his heal
ing, and can testify to the condition
and to the complete healing resulting
from one Christian Science treatment.
Recovery Is Rapid
A patient had been under my care,
more or less, for over six years, suf-
fering from organic disease of the
valves of the heart, steadily growing
worse most of the time. The last at
tack 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 chair,
the next working hard from early
morning in her own cottage home. This
patient entered my household as house,
maid a few weeks after her healing
and has remained with us all the six
years working as hard as any woman
could do, rejoicing each day in the I'M
folding 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 Sci
ence prayer and also cases of abject
slavery to sinful habits and cravings.
have also been able to keep myself
we'll through Christian Science, and
now / always take the medicine l rec
ommend to others--the medicine Of
Mind. While Christian Science was
doing such good work among my med
ical patients I began to study it's text
book and soon found that my thought
was changing; that the diseases l was
called in to treat could be healed more
quickly by Christian Science, with the
inevitable result that 1t was impossible
to serve two masters one had to go,
and believing Christian Science to be
Truth, and seeing it time after tire
healing where medicine failed, my lot
was thrown in with those who prac-
ticed the principles of Christian Sci
ence. a step which helped me to gam
some small understanding of what
Deity Is.
The following details of a case which
happened some year and half after
ceasing to practice medicine. and every
step of which passed under my per-
sonal observation, are wonderful tes-
timony to the power OF Trtuh to heal.
The patient suffered for twenty years
from form of paralysis and most of
the time losing more and more control
over her limbs, the latter eight years
being completely paralyzed in the low
er 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 morning
and upstairs to bed at night, when she
was even well enough to leave her
bed at all.
Paralysis Is Cured
The attending medical man at this
period, when asked his opinion Of tho
future progress of the disease, replied
plainly in effect that there was no
hope of any cure, but very grave
fear that she would steadily grow
steadily\ worse and that a fatal ter
mination in the near future was not
at all improbable-and then he fol-
lowed this up with a strong recon-
mendation to her to try Christian Sci
ence, because he had known of case
in his own practice of partial spinal
paralysis being healed by this treat
ment.
The patient, after consulting with
her relatives and also with the one
healed by Christian Science, to whom
her doctor had referred, applied for
Christian Science treatment.
During the first treatment given the |
Christian Scientist had the joy of wit
Messing the active return of movement
in the paralyzed limbs, at first in an
involuntary and uncomfortable swing |