While visiting a patient one day this week, a gentleman called also to see the patient. During his call he talked to him of God's power and love, the blessing of afflictions, the necessity of our going to Him with all our afflictions and troubles as we would go to a loving Father, feeling sure that He would do just what was best, and deal justly and lovingly with us in every instance.
At length, rising to take leave, he remarked briefly on a patient whom he knew, saying he was very ill of Typhoid fever, but he had always lived a strictly temperate life, and possessed a strong, vigorous constitution, so, although the fever must have its run, he was in hopes, with God's help, he would pull through. He said the sick man had a most excellent doctor, and partook freely of good nourishing milk, so we have every reason to believe that after the fever has had its run he would begin to recover. This is what Physiology teaches, and the little faith there is exercised in God to heal the sick. Now allow me to show what Christian Science does in similar cases. I was called to a patient one evening whose belief was Typhoid fever; found him delirious, moaning with pain, parched and burning with his belief of a fever. I sat by his bedside half an hour treating him, silently whispering through mind the great facts of man's immortal being, to correct the apparent disturbance of the mortal, realizing at once the power of God to destroy all error and discord. At the end of that half hour I left him quietly sleeping, and perspiring freely. The next morning called again, found him sitting up: he asked if he might go out; I said, "Yes, if you wish to;" and he took a short walk without any bad results, although the day was cold, with a high North wind.
I continued to treat him for several days, and in one week he resumed business, entirely restored to health and strength. In this instance, the fever did not "have its run," sickness was not a needed blessing, milk did not sustain the man's life, a vigorous constitution was not what he must fall back upon; but God, as understood in Christian Science, was proven more, infinitely more, than "all the vanities of the Gentiles," to restore the lost equilibrium, to allay the febrile symptoms, to change the secretions and restore health. Christian Scientist.
