Article January 10, 1901 Issue

How I was Led to take a Patient

BY MARY LEE FINDLAY.

After having been through a class in Christian Science, I felt that I could try to do the healing work only in my immediate family. Being afraid I would not make good demonstrations I was really denying the Omnipotence of God and limiting Love. I went along in this selfish way for a while, when one day I was left in charge of our reading rooms. I was not there long before a note was handed me from a lady who was visiting her sister in the city, asking the prayers of all the sisters, as she had been ill for a long time. I answered by telling her to come to the rooms immediately if possible, that I wished to talk with her. In a short while she was brought to the rooms in a buggy. After talking with her, I found that she believed somewhat in "faith cure," although she was taking all the medicine that her mother-in-law, who was a doctor, knew to give her. She said everything that could be done for her in a material way had been done, and still she could not get well.

I showed her Science and Health, and after telling her what would be expected of her, she decided to wait a while before she began treatment. Error was telling me all the while that if she should want treatment I must get some one else to do the work. Three days after, she sent a note to my house asking me to treat her right away, and come to her at five o'clock that afternoon. The note also said that she was much worse, not being able to be up. Fear seized me immediately, but the next thought was, that God was to do the work, and that I must not shirk my part of it. I wrote her that I would begin treatment at once, and would see her at the appointed hour. When I arrived at her house, she met me at the door with a bright, smiling face, saying that she was very much better. I gave her another treatment and sold her Science and Health before leaving. The next Sunday morning she attended our services feeling, she said, perfectly well. Before she left she bought a Quarterly, saying she wanted to know more of this grand Truth.

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