We have often desired to write for the Journal our experience in having to defend Christian Science in the courts in Canada. But the constant demand upon our time has caused us to put it off for a more convenient season. The recent inquiries, however, from several fields in the United States, for whatever information we could give in this line, have impelled us to write, in the hope that our knowledge of the triumph of Truth in this field may be of benefit to our brethren who have similar conditions to meet.
Ten years ago we came to the city of Toronto, Canada, to preach the Gospel and heal the sick. No one with whom we came in contact had ever heard of Christian Science. But after explaining a little of its teaching to some we met who were in ill-health, they decided to be treated. And through the healing they received, others were induced to try what it would do for them. The results were similar in their cases, and we became quite busy in preaching the Gospel by healing the sick; for at that time we talked very little of its ethics. We had not even asked any remuneration for our services, although we were treating as many as twenty-six cases some days. Many of our patients, however, began asking what they should give, remarking that we must be supported. We then acquainted them with what had been decided upon in the United States as a legitimate price to be charged for the services of those thus ministering to others' needs.
Many wonderful demonstrations of healing were wrought, and a great interest awakened. Persons frequently enquired of their old physicians what they thought of this new method of healing, where no medicine was given. And with very few exceptions it was ridiculed, and its practitioners called impolite names. But even this did not prevent people from coming to us who had spent years under the care of the best medical doctors in the hope of being healed of their diseases, and were finally told that their cases had become chronic and could not be healed.
