Idaho Springs, Col.
When Christian Science was first presented to me I ridiculed it. The idea that a person like myself, brought up, almost, in natural science, a student of Schopenhauer and Voltaire, who had proved Darwinism in the geological field, and who ruled his thoughts by the law of conservation of mass, could believe in anything so visionary as Christian Science, was too much.
However, my friend was patient, and after a while I started to read Science and Health. It was just what I had been looking for all my life, and when I had read fifteen pages, I asked to be treated. I had little or no faith but great hopes, and said if I could be healed I should believe. First, after two days' treatment, I put aside my glasses, which I had worn for four years. I had a bad claim of astigmatism, and three doctors had sentenced me to wear glasses for life. A skin trouble which caused me great torture, and which no doctor had been able to cure, followed the glasses in about a month. Then my left ear, which had always been deaf, began to "chemicalize." From smoking fifteen or more cigars a day, I began to forget to smoke, and no longer cared to drink, and in every way began to regard myself in a different light.
