About the year 1886 Christian Science first came to me with sufficient force to compel my attention.
A gentleman of high business standing, who for several years had been slowly but surely passing down the well-traveled road of tuberculosis, suddenly, in the fall of the year, took the train for Chicago, instead of California, as was his custom. He took with him the shrunken body, the hectic flush, the stooping figure, and that indefinable unrest and glitter of the eye peculiar to consumption.
In three or four weeks he returned leaving everything behind that he had carried, and bringing, in lieu thereof. a form erect, a body expanding, a color of health, and an expression of soundness in body and mind which could not be gainsaid.
