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MRS. M. A. DeFOREST BROWN

From the January 1886 issue of The Christian Science Journal


Mrs. Eddy recently enjoyed a delightful call from this lady, well known as a physician in the West, who has become so much interested in Christian Science, that she wishes to study it. Mrs. Brown was in Europe during the cholera excitement. Armed with letters from prominent physicians at home, she was not only kindly received, but afforded every facility for studying the disease. She even became known as the Florence Nightingale of the infected region, so useful was her work. Every night the doctors met to confer as to the events in their respective districts, and to this conference Mrs. Brown was admitted. For Pasteur, the great physician, she has the profoundest admiration. In London she was cordially received by Tyndall, but she thinks his ideas are really a repetition of Pasteur's; and that his great service is in turning them into English, for those who do not read French. Pasteur himself takes no pains to have his work spread abroad. He does his very best, and lets his labor speak for itself, while he goes on to explore new wildernesses.

Doctress Brown says that if she had been familiar with Christian Science, while in Marseilles and Toulon, she could doubtless have been instrumental in saving more lives. Every human support failed, and there was no resource but God.

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