Article December 28, 1899 Issue

Experience of a Railway Man

BY B. S. JOSSELYN.

I was raised a Methodist, but being a railway man, my duties often prevented my attending church, and as a consequence I drifted along in a desultory manner until my marriage. My wife being an Episcopalian, I naturally went with her to church and was accepted as a communicant in that church about two years afterwards. But my daily labors were such that I thought I did not have the time to make myself a very conscientious churchman.

One day a little pamphlet came into my hands, entitled, "Idols Dethroned;" I read, and was startled that I had other gods of worship. Up to that time I did not realize that the worship I was giving my family, my horse, my occupation, and numerous other things was resulting in my loving them all more than my God. This caused me to think deeply on the subject.

Shortly after that, a friend, upon hearing of what I had read, informed me that if I was interested in mental phenomena, he had something that was far superior to what I had been reading, and a few days after handed me a work on psychic phenomena. I read it carefully and about the time I had finished it, a person came to town, giving hypnotic performances. I was very much interested in what he said and did, and after a little practice, was enabled to cause any of the phenomena that he did. While in the height of my achievements I was seized as if with a chill, which filled me with a sense of terror; I felt uncanny and sat myself down to think, and the first thought that came to mind was, If there can be such a power in an entirely material law, how much more can there be if one only understood the spiritual law of things. For days I pondered, and while in this condition a very warm friend of mine in Kansas City commenced talking Christian Science to me; telling me what wonders had been accomplished thereby, etc., and dwelling particularly upon the names of noted persons who had espoused the cause; many of these were known to me, either personally or by reputation, as reliable, evenly balanced individuals, instead of a class of people that had never appealed to me as having any too much wisdom; but now when this lawyer, this doctor, that minister, that successful business man, etc., saw something in the Science, there must be something in it; so I procured a copy of Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and commenced diligently reading it.

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