As an explanation of the enclosed letter, I wish to say that, at the time mentioned, I was sent to Mechanicville, N. Y., to see one of our men, who had been stricken with paralysis. He was sixty-eight years of age. When I reached him at his boarding-house, his sons had brought him downstairs and laid him on a sofa; with great exertion he could sit up for a few minutes. His doctor had told him he must not talk much as he was so weak.
After finishing the business I had gone to see him about, I told him to lie down and make himself as comfortable as he could, as I had something to talk to him about that would not tire him. I commenced to talk to him about Christian Science; he grew very much interested, and as I talked to him; I noticed that the ladies of the house had come quietly into the room and seemed as much interested as my friend.
They said they were Methodists, and they were very much interested in what I said. After telling him about the good things of Christian Science he asked me to give him a treatment, which I did. Immediately after the treatment he sat up and commenced using his paralyzed leg, and so earnest was he about it that he nearly kicked himself off the sofa. As each boarder came in to dinner he would show what he could do, and a happier man you never saw.
