Dear Journal: I would like to tell you what Christian Science is doing for us here in Bath. Last Tuesday, as another man and myself were going up a ladder, and carrying some two-hundred-and-thirty pounds of chain, he let his load slip from his shoulder. The whole weight of the chain came upon me so suddenly as to throw me from the ladder. I fell ten feet, and struck the wharf, and then fell about eighteen feet into the river, the chain falling on me. With some difficulty—as I had on heavy clothes and rubber boots—I was pulled out, cold and wet. I went home and sent for my sister, Mrs. Elizabeth McTeer, who is practising Christian Science here. The next morning I astonished my fellow-workmen by going to work. When I showed them the bruises all over my body, and one on my side, half the size of a man's hand, they looked at me in astonishment, and said I ought to be in bed. When I replied that I felt as well as ever, they wanted to know what had cured me. Then I told them that Christian Science had done the work, and explained it to them as best I could. "Well," said one, "man never could have done it, for it was a miracle;" and as such I consider it myself. The accident was witnessed by some ten or twelve men. I know, had it not been for Christian Science, that I should have been laid up for a week at least.
Bath, Maine.
