Article July 13, 1899 Issue

A Good Recommendation

Herbert S. Fuller

A Few weeks ago it was my pleasure to spend a few days in Concord, New Hampshire. While there I made the Eagle Hotel my stopping-place. In a conversation with one of the gentlemanly clerks employed at this excellent hostelry, I was given his idea of Christian Scientists, and it was so interesting to me that I venture to pass it along, in the hope that it may indicate to the Field how Scientists are watched, so to speak, to see if they live up to the tenets they profess.

This bright young man said that he had been in the hotel business in other places for several years, and in that time had "roomed" thousands, and thought he knew something of the peculiarities of human nature as shown to hotel clerks. Some time ago he came to Concord, and at that time knew nothing of Christian Science except what he had read against it in the daily press of the country. He was in fact prejudiced against it because of what he did not know, and frankly said so. He said his work in Concord had brought him in contact with hundreds if not thousands of Christian Scientists, and in all his experience he had never fallen in with such a delightful class of people.

It was his statement that in "rooming" all these he had never heard an ill-natured remark or complaint, and he said that this had so impressed him that he told a traveling man only the night previous that if he ever was to seek any religion he should certainly be a Christian Scientist, for he had seen more love expressed by them than by any other class of people he ever met.

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