THE recent remark of a lady, now a living picture of health, has left a deep impression on my mind. She said, it almost made her tremble to think how near she came to giving up Christian Science treatment, simply because she had not been healed at once.
Although an invalid for many years, she was vexed—after three long weeks—that hers was not one of those speedy, or instantaneous, cures of which she had read so much. In despair, she told a friend that she had given Science a fair trial, but it evidently could not reach her case. With confidence, the real friend replied: "It was over a year before I was healed, so don't count the days, weeks and months; but keep right on, clinging to Science at least one half as faithfully as you did, for years, to drugs and M.D.'s, and you will be healed—for he that endureth to the end, shall be saved." And so it proved.
The thought occurs to me: All healers have some instantaneous cures but if we only mention these, does it not imply that we have no lingering cases? Would not such exclusive reports of quick cures, naturally discourage a patient who is not enabled at once to take up his bed and walk?
