Arizona republican., 1910-04-05

trouble God may be q very present help. nor to say there is q trouble
 that is beyond Gods ability or de- sire to overcome and destroy: and l Christian Science teaches that a man has just as much right to take a ! sick trouble to God as he has a sin
 trouble. and just as much right to expect freedom from one as the other. The general belief is that one
 must have great faith in Christian Science before any benefit may be
 derived from treatment by a Chris ton Science practitioner. This be-
 lief is erroneous; all the faith one needs to have in Christian Science
 at the inception Of his desire to be
 benefited by it, is sufficient faith
 to find a practitioner and express
 the desire for treatment. To illus
 trate the truth of this statement
 win relate my own experience when | turned from medicine to Christian
 Science to find health.
 Personal Experience.
 l was born with a supposedly in-
 curable organic disease; had never known a well day in my life;; I had
 taken all kinds of treatment known
 in those days, and had received no
 benefit. I had come to the place
 where the physicians were unanimous
 in saying that dissolution was at hand. I did not want to die; l wanted to stay hereto live, and
 be well and able to do as other boys did. About this. time l learned that in Boston. Mass, a body of people calling themselves Christian Scien- lists were claiming Gods word to be as presently efflcacious for the de struction of disease as it was when Jesus was on earth; and that they were proving the truth Of their state ment by healing people who had gone to them for treatment aft er having been pronounced hope less and incurable by their phy- sicians. l accepted the suggestion that l try Christian Science. in the hope that IL might he Of benefit to me. and I went to a Christian Science practitioner for help.
 The practitioner. woman. ush- cred, me into q small room which did duty as sn office, and asked me to be seated. she al the same time seating herself in the opposite cor ner or the room. After being seated. she asked me what seemed to be the trouble with me. l felt as though that question added insult to injury. for to me my suffering was most real and intense. so I told her that the physicians said l had an incurable organic disease. telling her what they said it was. After d few moments conversation, she said she would treat me. I had not the falntest idea what a Christian Science treatment was. so l was waiting with a good deal of curl osity for her to begin the treat ment, when to my surprise she folded 1 her arms and closed her eyes. l watched her for moment or two, wondering when the treatment | would begin. when it dawned on me !, that this was the treatment. The /, absurdity of the belief that she l could do me any good. sick as l was with an incurable organic dis | ease. without even laying her hands on me. was SO apparent 10 me that | I could scarcely avoid the discour- tesy Of laughing aloud in her face.
 In a short time she arose and said |
 T will see you tomorrow at the ] same time" If she had been able | to know what I was thinking, she | would have known that I thought | she wouldn't, for I did not then in tend to return for another treatment; | on the contrary. my mind was fully | made up to return to the use of the tonic our family physician had told | me it was as much as my fife was | worth to go without. This, how ever, I did not do. The disease with | which I was afflicted was of such 1 nature and had reached so advanced | a stage that it was impossible for me to obtain any rest without the use | of an opiate, and l fully intended | taking my usual dose when I went to bed; but the first thing Of which