MRS. O. C. SABIN said: I am going to read two letters and two telegrams and let them tell their own story: "March 25, 1913. Begin treatment at once for (giving name of patient), age ninety years; heart trouble." "March 27. My grandmother is improving. I telegraphed you Tuesday morning. Tuesday between 3 and 4 a change, very slight, was noticeable. I saw her Tuesday at 9 p. m., and she was feeling very much better, but had a very poor night. Tuesday at 10:30 p. m. I sent you a night letter. Wednesday afternoon she slept a little, sat up in her chair until 9 p. m., when, as soon as she reached her pillow, she immediately fell to sleep and had a very good night. . We want her to be able to come downstairs again. Treat as before, insomnia, heart, asthma, lungs and swelling of feet and legs." "April 1, 1913. My grandmother is better. It is wonderful. She is sitting up every day." "April 4, 1913. Telegram. Stop treatment. Everything all right." MRS. O. C. SABIN, JR., said: We received a letter dated March 31, 1913. from a lady in Pennsylvania, asking for heroic treatment. She says: "A year ago I had a sore arm; had to have it operated on time after time, and the pain was so awful that I had to take a drug for it, and now if I do not take it I am so nervous I cannot sleep at night and I am miserable. My arm is still sore and lumps form on it, and the doctors say I will have to have another operation, but I cannot stand another one." Under date of April 5, 1913, this lady writes: "I am feeling fine and you need not treat any longer than the week. I am so happy I can praise the Lord now, for I know what He will do for us if we only know how to ask Him." MISS BESSIE L. DAVIS: One Wednesday morning I took a backward tumble down a stairway of about seven steps, striking the back of my head on a chair, cutting it very badly, which caused me to faint. Two of my sisters who were with me at the time were very much frightened and wanted me to have a physician. I said, "No; all the physician I want and need is with me now and is healing me." And about that time I fainted again. One of my sisters ran to the hospital for a doctor. When they got back I was sitting on the doorstep and she said: "Bessie, here is a doctor. Don't you think you had better let him examine your head?" Again I said: "No; I don't want him, for I am all right, therefore I don't need him.' The doctor said: "Oh, she is a Christian Scientist and she doesn't need me." I thought like Job: "Though they slay me, I will maintain my integrity." I then had my sister telephone Bishop Sabin for treatment, and within three hours the wound looked as if the fall had happened three weeks before instead of three hours. The instant I knew I was falling I affirmed, "I am Spirit and I cannot be hurt," and I clung to that affirmation. I committed myself unto God, and in Him I trusted absolutely, knowing that whatsoever I asked in the name of Jesus Christ, believing, I would receive. Therefore I knew I did not need the doctor, so he dismissed himself gently and kindly. MRS. SUSAN Q. MORRIS: About nine o'clock in the evening I had an urgent message from a friend to come quickly. I went to see her, and according to mortal mind she was suffering great pain. I gave her a treatment and she immediately appeared relieved. After the treatment she informed me that she had sent for an osteopathic physician. She was an Evangelical Christian Scientist; had been taught the God healing, which could bring to her health, happiness, prosperity. She had been taught to know the truth and that the truth would make her free. She told me that she had been making a study of osteopathy, and that she thought that osteopathy and Christian Science together would make good healings. When we learn Christian Science and go to God for everything, we know that God needs no helper. "Thou shalt have. no other God before me" is his imperative command. This friend had gone after other gods, and those who do this make the mistake of their lives. It was true in her case. I advised her to go to Bishop Sabin for treatment. She finally promised she would. She went the next morning, and left his office feeling well, saying she had no pain. But from there she went directly to the osteopath's office, took treatment there and began to grow worse. She went to the doctor's home the same day and died that evening. You cannot mix osteopathy and Christian Science. God has not lost His power and He needs no help from any source. Jesus' greatest miracles were in healing the sick. Addressing His disciples, He said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also." Some of my hearers will say that Jesus' immediate disciples could heal the sick, raise the dead, because they were especially endowed, and such power ended with them. That is not true. For, according to the Acts, beside the disciples, Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. Barnabas, Philip and Paul healed the sick, and Paul raised the dead. And today the followers of Jesus are healing the sick just as the disciples of Jesus did. Christianity without healing the sick is not the Christianity that Jesus preached, practiced and with most tender, most loving benediction left to mankind. T. M. Cook: Many years ago a gentleman who was a carpenter by trade was carrying a load of lumber up a ladder; a rung of the ladder broke, he fell to the rung below, his foot caught between that rung and the railing of the ladder, and he fell backwards to the floor. His ankle was wrenched in the accident. He was carried home; a physician bound up his ankle the best he could-he could do but little-and left the work of healing to nature to do as best it could. The gentleman was confined to his bed for some time, and after he got up that ankle was enlarged and stiff and he suffered pain in walking. He supposed that some of the small bones of the ankle were broken or shoved out of place. More than seven years after the accident he took a course of absent treatment. Soon his ankle limbered up, and after treatment of two months or more it improved so much. that he afterwards worked on a farm, and he told me some years later, when I saw him, that he could plow all day without pain, and he showed me how he could move his foot from side to sidesomething which he said he could not do before he received the treatment. A few years ago a heavy weight fell on the same ankle which was hurt before, and his family feared that he could not go back to carpenter work again, but he took a short course of absent treatment and was soon able to resume his work. In both instances the treatment was done in Washington and he was in Texas. I In Texas a lady was sick of a fever. suppose it was a malarial fever, common to that country. Her husband, knowing that I had practiced the art of healing, came and asked me to treat her. I did so, and told him if he desired further treatment I would give it. In a day or two he came down and asked me to come up and treat her again, saying that he would rather have Dr. Cook than Dr. -, his physician. Of course, I am not a doctor. I treated her another time or two, I do not remember just how many, and she was well. The next year she had another spell of fever. The regular physician was away, and he could not get another, nor could he get any medicine. I went up and gave her a long treatment one afternoon. At the time I saw no change in her condition, but about sundown the fever subsided and did not come up again. That was the end of that fever. MISS HICKES, of Washington, said: When one thoroughly makes up his mind to study the Truth of Being, he will have sufficient proof in his own experience to encourage and stimulate him to further investigation. I had two very gratifying demonstrations in the very beginning of my study, before I came here. I was sitting in my room one day, reading in 'Christology,' looking over the formulæ designed therein for the healing of the sick, trying to understand their meaning. A neighbor called up over the telephone, saying: "Don't be so selfish. Come over and see me a bit." I put down my book and went over. About the first thing she said to me was: "Look at this sty on my eye, the angry thing! I do believe my eye will swell shut." I said: "Why, Mrs. Muntinge, don't you know there is no such thing as a sty?" Our faces were almost touching when I said it. We went on with our morning call and forgot all about the sty. After I went home she called up again and said: "Miss Hickes, what did you do to my eye? That sty is all gone can't tell I ever had one." I replied: "Didn't I tell you there was nothing in it?" We laughed heartily. Another time I was on my brother's fruit ranch in Oregon, where the peach trees bear a double crop. They were thinning the peaches, as they called itpicking half of them off, so that the other half would have room to mature and ripen. Something lodged in my eye. Instead of rubbing it, I closed my eyes and realized as best I could that God is All in All and that He would take care of my eye in His own way. It passed out of my mind. The next morning, when I was drying my face, there was a scratching in my eye, enough so that I knew it was there. A few hours afterwards my attention was called to it by one of the family, and I saw there was making its appearance on the outside, without pain or irritation, the biggest foreign substance I ever saw in any one's eye. Every step in my experience is more wonderful than the last, and I thank God daily for a better understanding of the Truth. alone. I said, "I will learn all about this truth and teach others." So I have demonstrated for myself and others, also, and realize that it has made me strong and able to help others. I have healed myself of acute indigestion in its worst form when none but God was with me, and also pains of all kinds in my body, which I denounce when this carnal or mortal mind crops out. So I give thanks to God for the teachings of this evangelical church of Christ, and hope always to continue and be strong in the work that is laid out for me in and through the name of Jesus Christ. A DEED AND A WORD A ladle at the brink; But judged that all might drink. thousand parching MRS. ANADALE: How I became a Scientist, which I now enjoy, was through my son's hearing of some healing that was being done. was being done. He said: "Mother, go and see them and find if I cannot be healed by them of the trouble with my limb"-which was called by the doctors infantile paralysis. Then I did not understand anything about it, having been reared a Methodist. My father living to be ninety-one years of age, thought I was losing my mind to a certain extent and said I was taking my children to the devil. Some called me a crank. I said, "Well, if I am a crank it takes one to turn a wheel, so I am glad I am one.” Nevertheless, I went on investigating, And saved a life beside. and then I told my son that he would have to be co-operative if nothing else. I told him that the healer desired him to study, but he was not willing. So I still continued going and studying, and said it was beautiful, and I would learn and help my mother and others, so that they saw I was in earnest. They tried to stop me and threatened to destroy my books, but I said, "There is nothing in them to destroy." I told them that they might stop me from going to the meetings. but they could not stop me from thinking. So they came to the conclusion to let me tongues A nameless man, amid a crowd That thronged the daily mart. Unstudied, from the heart; It raised a brother from the dust, It saved a soul from death. -Charles Mackay. John W. Eighmy OD is a great ethereal spirit, Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent. He is All Life, Truth, Love, Wisdom and Power. He is the only Power in this vast universe. No other has ever been known. He is everywhere present, filling all space with His attributes of Goodness. Every crack, crevice and corner in the room where we dwell - yes, the smallest space the human mind can contemplate-is filled with God. He not only fills all space around and about us, but all space in our town, our city, our county, our State, our Nation-all space in this world and throughout all the myriads of worlds that have ever been known or imagined. God is not a person; he is a spirit, filling all space. We cannot get on the outside of God. We are in His center all the time. Wherever we may be, we are in the center of God. He is always on our right side, and on our left, in front of us, and behind us, beneath and above us. We are at all times and in all places and under all circumstances and conditions enveloped in God. "As the waters cover and surround the fishes in the sea, so does God cover and surround you and me." God created man in His image and after His likeness. He made him perfect, and as children of God we are perfect beings. God being spiritual, we as His children are spiritual. This physical body you see is not the real man; this flesh body is nothing but matter; it is unreal, the outward expression of the thoughts and beliefs of the conscious mind. This flesh body of itself has no life, sensation, feeling or causation. The real man is the Mind, the Spirit. Take the mind, the spirit, from this physical body and the body is worthless for any purpose; it is the most useless, inert mass of matter in the world; it perishes, becomes ke dust and returns to the earth. Jesus Christ said: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." (St. John vi: 63.) The real man is the spirit, the mind within you, which is eternal and lives on forever, while the flesh body without the spirit perishes. God is Eternal Life, Truth, Love, Wisdom and Goodness, and will exist throughout all time, and Man as His image and likeness possesses all these attributes and will dwell with Him. Jesus Christ proclaims: "I and my Father are one." (St. John x:30.) And again He said: "Believe me, that I am in the Father and the Father in me." (St. John xiv:11.) And: "Ye shall know that I am in the Father and ye in me and I in you." (St. John xiv:20.) The New Testament abounds with passages proving that God, Jesus Christ and Man are spiritual beings jointly united as the Trinity. What a sublime truth was that given by Jesus Christ when He said: "I am the true vine and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word that I have spoken unto you. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit |