I Would like to cite the Scientific cure of two apparently hopeless cases of the morphine habit made a few years ago which have stood the test of time.
A man who was a drummer-boy in the late war, being injured in one of the battles, was removed to a hospital where the attending physician, to relieve his suffering, gave him hypodermic injections of morphine. He remained some months in the hospital receiving this narcotic quite often, until, as he believed, the desire for it had a strong hold upon him. For twenty-four years thereafter he continued to use the drug, gradually increasing the amount injected into his system, until its deleterious effects became alarmingly apparent both to himself and his friends.
All self-effort to overcome the habit had long been useless, and his widowed mother had, with tears, appealed to the family physician and other doctors, to save her son, but was told there was no cure for him, that he would some day take an overdose and death would follow. Most fortunately Christian Science was now brought to their attention. His mother urged him to take treatment. He consented to do so. The third day of the treatment the case chemicalized severely, but on the fourth day he arose from his bed, healed. Dr. Greely, the family physician, hearing of the demonstration, said, "If he is healed it is nothing less than a miracle," and "a miracle" it proved to be.
A lady suffering from a physical difficulty that neither medicine nor surgery could reach, was advised by her physician to take morphine powders, which would give her some relief from almost incessant pain. For a year or more she continued to take the powders, under the doctor's direction, and then found herself a victim of the morphine habit, which extended its hold upon her for a period of twenty-two years.
Through the influence of a friend who had been healed in Christian Science, her mother was led to try the treatment for kidney and stomach trouble, and was cured. After this demonstration the daughter asked the Scientist if it was possible she could be healed of the morphine habit. '"I believe you can be," he said, ''for all things are possible with God." She decided to give Christian Science a trial, but continued to use the drug, expecting the treatments would destroy all desire for it. No good results came from this; and the practitioner said to her, "If you really wish to be healed you must destroy every grain of morphine in the house, and take a decided stand for Truth." This she finally consented to do, and then came, as our beloved Leader expresses it in Science and Health, page 184, "the mental conflict between the testimony of the spiritual senses and the evidence of the material senses." After the second day's treatment chemicalization began, and for three days and nights, the practitioner remained with the patient most of the time.
Meanwhile her brother-in-law, postmaster of the city, heard what was going on, called at the house, and reminding the family that the physicians had said that if any attempt was made to discontinue or destroy this habit, the lady would quickly collapse and pass away, owing to her physical condition, requested that they dismiss the Scientist. "Why," he added, "what our learned physicians cannot cure, those absurd people need not attempt."
Upon the seventh day, in spite of all seeming opposition, the patient was healed, and later on the postmaster referred to employed the Christian Scientist to treat a member of his own family. Verily, the demonstration of spiritual love unfolds the Father-Motherhood of God, and the brotherhood of man.
Christian Science is doubtless gaining in interest here in Beloit. There was an attendance of upwards of twenty-five present Sunday afternoon last, who gave the subject close attention. It will be remembered that the Christian Scientists of this city organized a church of that denomination here a few weeks ago, elected first and second readers, and hold services every Sunday afternoon at three o'clock, in the south room of the Opera House.— Beloit, Kan.
