Letters April 14, 1906 Issue

Letters to our Leader.

with contributions from Emilie B. Hulin, Irving C. Tomlinson, Louise Hergen hann, I. H. Woodland, Alfred Farlow, Martha L. Strang

Flatbush, N. Y., March 27, 1906.

My Beloved Teacher :— Some weeks ago there appeared on the editorial page of the Sentinel an article referring to your visit to Chicago in 1888, and to your address delivered to the public in Music Hall, at that time. Well do I remember this occasion ! It was the first time that I had seen you, although I had been healed and interested in Christian Science nearly two years prior to that time. At the conclusion of your address I noticed a poor woman who had entered the auditorium on cruthches, and who was evidently badly crippled, stretch out her arms toward you in a beseeching manner. You looked at her with eyes full of compassion and love, as it seemed to me, and immediately she laid down her crutches and walked out as any one in a normal condition would do ! I cannot tell you of the awe that fell upon me, or the impression I received, and I then determined to learn more of this wonderful truth at the fountain head. The following fall I applied for and received your instruction in a primary class. This great blessing has followed me in succeeding years, and this, with additional instruction from time to time, has changed the whole current of my life.

Another incident may interest you. Recently, I met at the home of a friend, a lady who told me the following interesting experience. She said that over twenty years ago, her father was pronounced incurable with consumption, and sent to the mountains for a change; his wife and this lady, then a child, accompanying him. In this far-away place they stumbled upon a copy of the first edition of Science and Health, and with a mixture of curiosity and interest the wife read the book to her husband. He began to improve, and in a few months returned to his home perfectly well. He is to-day robust and well, a man nearly sixty years old. The climate was given the credit at the time, but the conditions in his case were such as to require something more than this to effect a cure; and the daughter is now confident that nothing but the benign influence of Christian Science restored him to perfect health. She was then a little child, but remembers some of the reading at that time. Truly the exalting influence of the divine Mind on the body was there demonstrated fully. Can any one truthfully say that Christian Science does not heal, or that the Prophet in this age does not declare the deep things of God?

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