Article November 23, 1907 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from G. F. Deal, W. W. Porter, George L. Putnam, P. A. Johnson, Mayor Landers

A large audience at the Victoria Theater greeted Judge Septimus J. Hanna on his second visit to our city Sunday afternoon [Oct. 6]. He was introduced by G. F. Deal, D.D., of this city, formerly a minister of the United Brethren Church. In introducing Judge Hanna Dr. Deal told of his own healing through Christian Science. He said in part,—

Friends, I am very glad to meet you on this occasion. We are here to study the greatest subject of all the ages, and to do it first-handed, as we do everything else, and not by what its enemies say or think, who fail to understand its deep spiritual fundamental truths. Many of you think and feel as I did for years, until three years ago, and I have the truest sympathy for you. I opposed what I believed Christian Science to be, but not what I now know that it is. When by knowing the truth this error was removed, I was ashamed of many things I had said. I feel sure that each sincere Christian in all the churches would most gladly receive all that Christian Science stands for if they understood its true nature.

May I be permitted in a few words and with an humble spirit, to bear personal testimony to some of the things it has done for me. I believe that "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," written by Mrs. Eddy, is the greatest book, save one, on earth to-day, and its author the greatest benefactor since the days of the apostles. One year ago my life was threatened by a cancer, and an immediate operation was pressed upon me with some hope of success. I went to Christian Science, and in seventeen days, without a drop of medicine, the cancer was dead and nearly gone, and in thirty days the doctor who urged the operation, when he saw the place where the cancer had been, after saying other sensible things as a Christian man, added, "I am sure of two things. First, that you had a cancer; second, you have none now." This I most firmly believe, and to God I give all the glory. This is but one of several things that have been done for me and my family, and besides it has made life far sweeter and the Bible plainer and dearer, and more than ever made God an ever-present help in every time of need.

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