A gentleman,— a travelling salesman from one of our large cities,— with whom Christian Science is the main topic of conversation, when not engaged in selling goods, being on quite intimate terms with one of his customers in a small town, introduced the subject of Christian Science, endeavoring to give him some idea of what it is; giving as proof some cases of healing; not knowing, at that time, that the merchant had an invalid son and daughter, and a friend with an invalid wife. The subject was entirely new to him. He listened very quietly, then asked who did the work, taking the address of the Scientist.
The seed was sown in what proved very good soil, for soon after the conversation took place the gentleman, whose wife was an invalid, and who had very recently returned from a consultation with one of the best specialists known, with very little encouragement,— only another experiment; and having for the past ten years been under the best medical treatment, including institutes, dropped in to see the merchant, who told him he had heard of some new kind of curing being done, and advised him to take his wife and go and see about it. Like a drowning man ready to catch at a straw, they decided to investigate. The result was, in a few weeks, a well and happy woman. A lost sheep restored to the true fold. It was the "well spring of life" to them, as they were indeed thirsty for it.
Then the merchant's son and daughter were healed, and have since carried the evidence to one of our western states. The first case mentioned had a friend, in the last stages of consumption, and who, according to the physician's testimony, could live only a short time. The lady went to him, told him what had healed her. He resolved to give it a trial. The trial proved a cure for him, and gladly he and his wife proclaimed the Truth to others. The seed sown in that field has grown to such a height, that its branches have spread over four different states, even to Florida. And "the birds of the air have lodged in its branches." , Peoria, Ill.
