At the Wednesday evening meeting in the Mother Church, October 4, 1899, Judge Ewing made the following remarks:—

I believe I would like to say something in this meeting. It may not do you very much good but it will do me a great deal of good, I am sure.

I think that the latter part of the statement of the gentleman who has just taken his seat, can hardly be controverted, and that is, that Christian Science is growing; that there are better Scientists than there ever were before; that there is more scientific work done; better results.

I have been greatly impressed with this fact in the last two months, and it seems to me that it is now almost demonstrated not only that this work is growing, but that it must continue to grow. One of the very great matters of interest to me in my work as a servant of this Church has been to discover, that scattered all over the great northwest portion of this country, from Ohio to the Rocky Mountains, throughout that great wheat-garden which God has spread out in Iowa, Minnesota, and the Dakotas; —large enough to feed the world, —at nearly every crossroad are now found an association of Scientists, and in some fifty odd places that I have visited and talked to the Scientists, with one solitary exception, I have not found an organization throughout that whole country that is not larger than the organization in Chicago was fifteen years ago. Now this means much to a thinking person. Hundreds of these organizations, with a life of one to four years, started as these organizations all have been by some one courageous, honest, devoted man or woman, —generally a woman, —have by her efforts or his efforts grown to number eighteen, twenty, and thirty Scientists. Now, the question recurs to us: If one devoted Christian Scientist can "demonstrate" thirty Christian Scientists in three years, how many will the thirty demonstrate in the next three years? And this is the ratio of our growth. It has proved to be the ratio of the growth in my own home. And what I know of your own church here, the development of strength in the Mother Church, the ratio is not less. And it is not hard to find the cause for it all. It is found in the proof, and the only proof that Jesus Christ ever found in this world for his divine origin, and that is, that the lame walk and the blind see.

It has been a matter of special interest to me throughout this whole northwestern country to see the wonderful demonstrations which have been made, and the most marvelous are usually found in the smallest places. It is where two or three are gathered together in his name that this wonderful work is done. This is the argument that we have presented to men and must present to the world, knowing that the one thing of most interest for you and me and all God's children is to make these demonstrations speak for themselves, and say to every doubting man and woman as Jesus said to John, the lame do walk and the blind do see.

I have taken great pains to investigate and talk with the persons who have been the objects of some of these wonderful cures, and to talk with the person who has treated them, so that I might be able to say, in some sense, that I had a personal knowledge of the cases. It has been a longing of mine to be able to go through, as nearly as I could, the whole catalogue of human ills as they are presented to human sense, and I have almost accomplished that, so that, almost every phase of sorrow, suffering, and heart-break I have seen cured. For a long while I knew I could say that the lame walk, I had seen so many instances of that kind. I wanted to be able to say, "The blind do see." I knew where very defective eyes were cured, but I wanted to find an instance where blindness had been total, or for a long term of years, so that no one could say that it was not a real, genuine instance of blindness. I wanted to see it perfectly healed. I had the pleasure within the last six weeks of seeing just such a case. I met a young woman twenty-two years of age at a dinnerparty of Scientists in a little town in Nebraska, and as I looked across the table at her I could not help saying, "Your life has been a long holiday. You know 110 sorrow or tears; but within fifteen minutes I learned that if I had taken the combined sorrows of all the people at that table they would not have equalled a tithe of what she had suffered. I learned from her mother that she had been born with defective eyes, one large and one small, and the sight drawn to one side. At the age of six months a curtain dropped down over her eyes so as to obscure the iris. No one knows whether she ever did see. At six years of age she was sent to an asylum for the blind and remained there twelve years, and was then sent home because she had reached the age-limit of the institution. Eighteen months before she was discharged her mother became interested in Christian Science and took class instruction, and is now the First Reader in the church there, and of course her thought was very naturally addressed to her child, and she gave her all the help she could. But there was not the slightest evidence that the treatment had accomplished anything, except in the cheer of the patient, she felt that she would yet see. After she came home, a neighboring Scientist began to treat her. and about fifteen months after she came home, this cloud just simply disappeared. It did not roll up or down but went out into nothingness, and that girl to-day sees as well as any man or woman in this house. She said that God had been very good to her, in that He had made the large eye smaller and the small eye larger, so that they were both perfectly balanced. She is now a perfect specimen of vigorous young womanhood. This is the kind of demonstration that speaks for Christian Science, and enables us to use, with absolute knowledge of the facts, the the argument of Christ, "the lame walk and the blind do see."