While on a trip through Mexico, I met a woman who told me that while she did not believe in Christian Science, she had bought Science and Health while on her way from Wisconsin (her home). When she reached M—, she met a minister from the North, whom the M.D—'s had sent there because of consumption. They had given him two months to live. She gave him Science and Health, and while doing so, she felt "it was all absurd." The man read it, and was healed immediately. Was not this a beautiful demonstration of the power of Truth, and good evidence that Science and Health is the "Word of God?"
I feel that I must also tell you how beyond description is the joy I have received from reading your new revision of Science and Health. While traveling in the cars it was my constant companion, and I committed much of it to memory. I do not care for any other reading but our good, dear Journal and that inspired Book.
I had, while in Mexico, a glorious conquest over the fear of small-pox. There were hundreds of cases in some small towns where we were. After the fear was cast out, never a thought of it as real came to me or my husband, or troubled us in any way. I met, on the street, three men who were being taken to the pest-house with that loathsome disease—
