Article November 16, 1899 Issue

Healed by Christian Science

C. A. Smith

The following statement of how his wife and daughter were healed by Christian Science, after all material remedies had failed, was recently made by Mr. C. A. Smith of Spokane, Wash., and read at a Wednesday evening meeting of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of that city.

I desire to say that it gives me great pleasure, under the circumstances, to acknowledge the truthfulness of the claims of Christian Science, which has been demonstrated to me in a manner that will admit of no reasonable doubt. Owing to the fact that we are comparatively strangers in this city and among you, I have hesitated somewhat in saying what I have felt it my duty to say concerning Christian Science.

Some of you, doubtless, have noticed that I have been coming to your meetings with more or less regularity for the past four weeks. I will say that these visits have not been made out of idle curiosity, although I must acknowledge that I know little or nothing of that divine Science taught here in your meetings. But I do know that there is some reality in it, and that it is capable of doing much, not only in the way of lifting up and elevating the scale of human progress and civilization, but in relieving suffering humanity and restoring the sick and disabled. To say that when I came to your city, less than two months ago, I was a sceptic in the faith of Christian Science, would be putting it mildly. Like many others I am strong in my prejudices, and though I had only a superficial knowledge of its claims, yet I felt that I was justified in condemning it on general principles, and took it for granted that its advocates were, to say the least, to a certain extent, victims of misplaced confidence, and while some of them might be sincere in their belief, there was practically nothing on which to base their claims; but the circumstances which have conspired to bring me to a realization of the truth and reality of Christian Science are too potent and convincing to admit of any doubt in my mind. Therefore I am trying, in a measure, to make reparation for my past misdeeds concerning this matter, and at the same time striving to gain some knowledge of this great and divine Truth. My eyes have been opened to this great Truth by demonstrations too convincing to admit of any reasonable doubt. The circumstances are briefly as follows:—

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