A cosmopolitan city is Denver. Many invalids, from all quarters of the globe, seek health and vigor there, lured thither-ward by its sapphire skies and balmy breezes. Nowhere does the sun shine more brightly than in Denver. Nowhere do the winds play more softly that in this wonderful city, nestled so lovingly at the foot of the grand old Rockies, whose summits of perpetual snow seem, in their solemnity and grandeur, to keep guard over the busy and pushing life of the inhabitants of the Queen City. As an unselfish mother breasts the clouds of adversity to spare a beloved child, so these lofty peaks arrest the storms and bid them spend their fury upon their own rugged fronts, while only the softest zephyrs descend upon the clustered spires of Denver.
From extended observation, during a recent visit to this favored locality, I solved, to my own satisfaction at least, the oft-repeated inquiry, as to the reason of the universal interest there in Christian Science. Unlike many Western cities, Denver is made up of unwilling exiles from nearly every State in the Union, and from many countries of Europe. These persons have left their homes and friends, beloved scenes and associations, because of the salubrious climate of Denver, and largely believe that life can be comfortably prolonged by remaining there, but that a return to the South or East might prove fatal. This longing for home, so innate in the human heart, has led many of these exiles to Christian Science, with the hope that, through its healing power, such freedom would be gained as to make life possible and joyous in any place or clime.
Much good has already been accomplished in this line. The delusion is fast disappearing, that health is obtainable by any means save an understanding of God. The pioneer days are over in Denver. All honor to those who first uplifted the banner of Christian Science there, and changed the city from a sanitarium and hospital into a very stronghold of our God! It was a glorious moment when General Fremont unfurled the Stars and Stripes on the lofty summit of Pike's Peak, and a breath of liberty stirred the mountain air; but sublimer yet was the work of those who here first held aloft, on the mountain-top of purified vision, the diviner emblem of Truth, the standard of Christian Science, the promise of eternal freedom from sin and pain.
