Testimony of Healing February 2, 1899 Issue

The following notes from the experience of two Scientists...

The following notes from the experience of two Scientists who have gone from Boston to live in a Western town may be interesting to some readers.

"One pleasing incident of our trip, and one that shows the widespread interest in Christian Science occurred on the sleeper west of Chicago. As is now usual with us, we had finished our little morning service when the colored porter came to us, saying, 'I was glad to see you reading out of the good little book, it did me good, and I feel better for it.' We had a very interesting conversation with him, and were surprised to find the real interest that he manifested in the 'good little book,' as he called it.

"Compared to the well dressed and crowded church in Boston, it would take but a slight stretch of imagination to fancy one's self in a conventicle of the old Scotch Convenanters. Instead of a Claverhouse to fear this little band has to contend against the united opposition of ministers, churches, and doctors, and in a small, isolated place like this where each individual is known, the warfare is more bitter than in larger places. We enjoyed the simple, earnest service. The brotherhood of man was well illustrated by the cordial greetings we received after the service, nearly all came to take us by the hand; some were introduced, some not, but that made no difference in the hearty welcome extended to us; it made us feel as though we were not strangers in a strange land."

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