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Mrs. Walden of Columbus was here
attending the opening at the music
sstore last Saturday, returning home
Sunday She was accompanied by
Emily Hanson, child singer of ex-
~ceptional talent and who took part in
eshe program.
Mrs. James Johnson is reported i'll
with jaundice.
Rev. II. L., Chaplin moved his family
To the Baptist parsonage on Monday
Mrs Earl Denman, who has been
seriously i'll for several weeks past is
reported convalescent.
DR.. and Mrs. Woods of Lexington
also Mrs. Curtis and daughter, of the
~Eame place, came to Fredreicktown to
hear DIR. Wertheimer at The Baptist
church They returned home late Sun
day evening.
Mrs. Herendeen, returning from
California, brought each Of the mem
bers of the C. S. club fine wooden
tray which she presented them the
past week
The ladies missionary society of
the Baptist church meet at the home
-4of Mrs. Alex Penick on Thursday of
this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Zolman are now
located in their new home at Mans
field.
The special meetings at the Baptist
church came to close last Sunday ev-
~ening in most dramatic manner with
the testimony of the conversion of Dr..
Wertheimer and his wife, with the
main auditorium and Sunday school
room filed with expectant people who
" sat spellbound for over an hour and a
half listening to the story Of his life s
work. DR. Wertheimer having been
raised an orthodox Jew, with all the
prejudices against the Gentiles that
ages have been able to accumulate.
he was ordained as Jewish rabbi
and given position in one of the best
churches in the state located at Day
ton, Ohio Here he had a large salary,
every comfort obtainable and with his
wife and children lived in happiness.
His wife suddenly died and his sorrow
became so great as TO be almost un-
bearable. He was of a studious and
inquiring mind and when the Christian
Scientists pressed upon him their
tracts and books, he said II was as
drowning man grasping at the straws
that fioated in my way" He became
interested Mrs. Eddy wrote him 10
go TO Chicago and take a course there
at her expense; later to Boston twice
for drill in the inner circle. In the
meantime he resigned his position and
renounced the Jewish faith He be-
came one of the pillars of the Christian
Scientist church. He was studying ev-
anything to be found on the subject.
One day good woman, honorable.
unselfish. admitted that she had been
in the faith 1S years and that she had
never made a cure. The doctor com
pared her statement with that of a
man whom he knew to be immoral,
Beifish bad, who claimed that all his
patients We're cured. Says the doctor,
There is screw loose somewhere"
He went home to his study and down
On his knees he prayed God to show
him where were the defects in Chris.
tan Science which he had espoused
no earnestly, No vision came no re.
Teiation, but the thought of atoning
blood came to his mind. He began TO
reason, God makes much Of the blood,
Mrs. Eddy makes nothing of the
blood, he hunted scriptures through,
made out a list of the sayings from
God on the subject, compared them to
christian Science teachings and final
~ arrived at the fact that the atoning
blood of Christ was the only salvation
Tor mankind; he began to feel that he
had been a sinner, minister of the
heVii. lie became n converted Chris
-tian. While preaching Science he met
and married his present wife, who was
also a Scientist. He confided to her
MS conversion and later she renounced
der belief and became Christian. Az.
-enr many vicIssitudes of fortune, they
sought out church of their belief and
Joined the Baptist church in Dayton.
The doctor then Went TO Louisville