Article December 19, 1908 Issue

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Columbus (O.) Citizen

Back to the world of light and life and work, back from the dusk of creeping blindness which for a year and a half had shadowed his life and the lives of his wife and child, Howard Chandler Christy, famous artist, has resumed the work which made him famous. When he had to quit it, because of his failing sight, he was a stranger to Christian Science; to-day he studies its teachings and seeks to become a member of the church founded by Mrs. Eddy.

Christy tells in simple language the story of his healing. "Last March," he says, "I was almost blind. For a year and a half my sight had been failing, and I had done no work. I groped along the walls when I went about the house; I could not read the head-lines in a newspaper. My wife, a Christian Scientist, suggested to me, as she had many times before, that I take Christian Science treatment. I had always laughed at Christian Science, but my plight was now become so serious that I grasped at any straw, and I consented. Twenty minutes after my first treatment I realized that I could see better, and my nerves were entirely calmed—the fear of blindness had left me. Three weeks later I took my last treatment. I was cured."

With Christy's healing, a great load is lifted from the heart of a beautiful and a brave woman—the "Christy girl." Her husband's future, her husband's work, her husband's ambitions were her life. The year and a half of his threatened blindness were dark days for her, too. But she, confident in her religion, believed firmly that some day he would be saved through the faith that kept her strong of heart, and so it proved. The time of the Christys is divided between their New York house and a quiet farm in Muskingum county, Ohio, the birthplace of the artist. It is the very farm on which he was raised, and he bought it after sixteen years away from the old home, with the fruit of the work of those sixteen years. There, among the gently-rolling hills, on the banks of the slow-flowing Muskingum river, Christy plans to paint many pictures, now that sight is again his in all its blessedness. There little Natalie will romp and play and peep over papa's shoulder at the work on the easel. There the "Christy girl" will pose again and again.

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