My experience with malicious Animal Magnetism has been anything but agreeable. I will not weary you with all my trials, but will detail the more prominent features of this form of diabolism, as I have encountered them.
Twice my life was threatened, so that I went reeling about like a drunken man. The suggestion came to me continually, that I was dying. Treatment was offered me; but I refused it, and asked to be let alone. Then I wrestled, like Jacob of old, until Revelation's dawn broke through the clouds of error. I remembered my Teacher's remarks in the Primary Class, that I would have to meet the dogs of war; but I desire no more such encounters. My wife says I looked like a corpse.
Since these attacks failed to kill me, they have not been repeated in that form; but the suggestion came to me to complete the medical course, in which I had taken two years of study before entering Christian Science. This temptation also failed.
