Article November 2, 1907 Issue

A well-known Manhattan woman, one of whose...

Manhattan (Kan.) Republic

A well-known Manhattan woman, one of whose parents died of cancer, fearing the disease all her life, at length was afflicted. Medical treatment was useless. The most of us would have concluded that only a slow death was before her. It seems impossible to the reason of the writer that there could be a different ending. The age of miracles is not past it seems, however. A Christian Science healer attempted to cure her of the trouble. Within twenty-four hours after the first treatment the cancerous sore had healed over. It is well now. But that is not all. Although she is perhaps fifty years of age, within the past week she cut a tooth,—one that came to take the place of one the cancer had destroyed.

Explain it if you can; we cannot. The lady told of it herself, and we cannot but believe her, and she has the tooth there to show for itself. When Christian Scientists tell of multiplied instances of such cures as this, what shall we do—ridicule their claims, or admit that there must be certain great laws which but few, perhaps not any, completely understand? Such a cure as we mention would seem to hold out a hope to all who are afflicted with cancer, yet we suppose that in most cases such a hope would prove futile. And yet there seems to be hope. There must be a divine law of nature upon which is based all mysteries and all miracles, and they are mysteries and miracles only because we do not know and understand perfectly the laws of nature.

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