Article October 5, 1907 Issue

It was some ten years ago that I first met Lord Dunmore...

Frederick Dixon—London, England.

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It was some ten years ago that I first met Lord Dunmore in the Christian Science church in Bryanston Street. I knew him, of course, by reputation, as a great shikari; but what interested me in him was not that, but the fact that he was one of the few men who at that period had definitely thrown in their lot with Christian Science. In those days people had hardly got so far as even being rude about it; so far as Christian Science was concerned, London might have been Laodicea. I doubt if Lord Dunmore himself, or any of the little band of worshipers, recognized the extent to which they were making history, or that within ten years he would be facing the Albert Hall, crowded to its topmost galleries with an audience intent upon hearing a lecture on Christian Science.

Not long after, I heard him give his first testimony, the account of his healing from rupture, which he gave again only a few days before his death, in a meeting at Aldershot. He was an effective speaker, because he knew what he wanted to say, and could say it simply and directly, and on this occasion he spoke with an eloquence born of deep gratitude. It required great moral courage for such a man to take his stand in the midst of London society, and to rise, in what society would have termed a conventicle, and proclaim that he had done so; but as he stood there, expressing with the simplicity of some great child his thanks to God for the healing he had received, it was impossible not to feel that he would spend himself in the Cause of Christian Science in the same great-hearted way that had won for him from the Indians of the Red River the name of the "One-eyed White Chief."

His love of Christian Science was intense. He was one of the most regular and punctual attendants. I remember his coming into Bryanston Street one Sunday just after the service had started, which was unusual for him. "I was late to-day." he said to me afterwards, "but I have come straight through from Constantinople without a break, and had just time to get here from the station."

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