The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-16
4 DEMONSTRATE RELIGION
Speaker is Member of the Christian
Science Board of Lectureship Of the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston.
Ladies and Gentlemen:

Ladies and Gentlemen:
There is nothing in the world today
which is SO occupying the thought of
the people as Christian Science, and
there is a vital reason why, regardless
of all the Misunderstanding and mis-
representation relative to the subject,
people should still insist on knowing
the truth about it.
Salvation
People are awakening to the fact
that the one great problem in life is
that of individual salvation, and the
more they think about salvation, the
more they are convinced that they
want it now, and the less willing they
are to wait for it until after they
have passed through the valley of
the shadow with all the mystery and
fear and doubt surrounding that pas
sage. Heretofore people have read the
Bible; today they are studying it; and
the result is an awakening which car
ries with it the conviction that many
things formerly believed to be real,
essential, God-created and God-given,
are now seen to be. but misconceptions
relative to God and what He creates,
misconceptions which need to be cor
rected SO that freedom may be obtain
ed from that bondage wherein mis-
taken belief has held mankind.
The general belief ssthat one must
have great faith in Christian Science
before any benefit may be derived from
treatment by a Christian Science prac-
titioner, This belief 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 practitioner
and express the desire for treatment
To illustrate the truth of this state
ment I will relate my own experience
when [ turned from medicine to
Christian Science to find health.
Personal Experience
[ was born with a supposedly incur
able organic disease; had never known
a we'll day in my life; L had taken
all kinds Of treatment known in those
days, and had received no benefit I
had come to the place where the physi-
clans were unanimous in saying that
dissolution was at hand. [ did not
want to die; [ wanted to stay here
to live, and be we'll and able to do as
other boys did About this time [
learned that in Boston, Mass, body
of people calling themselves Christian
Scientists were claiming Gods word
to be as presently eficacious for the
destruction Of disease as it was when
Jesus was on earth; and that they were
proving the truth of their statement
by healing people who had gone to
them for treatment after having been
pronounced hopeless and incurable by
their physicians. [ accepted the sug-
gestion that [ try Christian Science,
in the hope that it might be of bene-
fit to me, and I went to Christian
Science practitioner for help.
The practitioner, woman, ushered
me into small room which did duty
as an office, and asked me to be seated.
she at the same time seating herself
in the opposite corner of the room 1
told her that the physicians said [ had
an incurable organic disease, telling
her what they said it was After a
few moments conversation, she said
she would treat me. [ had not the
faintest idea what Christian Science
treatment was, so [ was waiting with
good deal of curiosity for her to be-
gin the treatment, when to my surprise
she folded her arms and closed her
eyes. [ watched her for a moment
OF two, wondering when the treatment
would begin, when it dawned on me
that this was the treatment. The
absurdity of the belief that she could
do me any good, sick as l was with
an incurable organic disease, without
even laying her hands on me, was so
apparent to me that I could scarcely
avoid the discourtesy of laughing aloud
in her face.
In a short time she arose and said,
II viii see you tomorrow at the same
time. - II she had been able to know
what l was thinking, she would have
known that I thought she wouldn t.
for | did not then intend to return
FOR another treatment; on the contrary