Loyalty to Conviction

St. Louis Chronicle

Dr. Fred D. Johns , for twenty-nine years an allopathic physician and for four years of that time superintendent of the Bertillon system at the Four Courts, has been converted to Christian Science and has commenced regular practice in that faith.

Dr. Johns took up Christian Science healing immediately after leaving his police department position in September.

After failing to cute himself of long-standing physical ailments by means of the "regular" practitioner's methods, and arriving at a point where orthodox religious views would not satisfy him, Dr. Johns turned to Christian Science.

For two years he has been a member of the Christian Science Church, but only in the past two months has he regularly practised its healing.

"I was in the old school for years," said Dr. Johns in his Odeon office, Friday morning. "I was in very bad health, and after much doctoring received no help. Then, too, I was dissatisfied with my religious faith. I could not see God in the light I desired, and wanted something more.

"I became interested in Christian Science and watched its effects on others. I saw that it cured the supposed incurables, those who had gone to many doctors. Then I tried its effects upon myself. It cured me, and it also gave me just the religion I was seeking.

"Do not for a moment believe that I decry the medical profession. I gave up the medical profession because I no longer had faith in it. I knew that cures could be made without it, and my conscience would not allow me to practise it again."—St. Louis Chronicle.

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