Editor Journal:—With a sense of the great practical good resulting from the plan of "Healing and Reports" of Cases in the February Journal, some experiences are here presented.
Mind-cure teaching and its healing had, in this part of California, convinced the public that it was neither scientific nor Christian before true Science was taught or practiced. There was at first more zeal in the letter than apparent demonstration on the part of young Scientists, and the public was, therefore, slow to discover any special difference. Indeed, more immediate results were at first seen from the material "laying on of hands," and patients under Christian Science treatment chemicalized and returned to old ways as often as with the mind-cure practitioners.
Slowly, but surely, the light of Truth began to dawn on individuals, and then cases of cure through the spiritual understanding occurred. It was seen that healing was not through any gift or power in the "healer," but that the patient must "be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of the mind," in order to be every whit whole. Trials and discouragements were met and overcome through the abiding trust in Christ— Truth and Love,
