I take this opportunity to give to the Journal a demonstration that occurred in the Odd Fellows Home at Green Bay, Wis. I am a commercial traveler and called on the superintendent, Mr. L., a fraternal brother, socially as well as on business. I met some of the inmates in the yard and greeted them in a fraternal way. One of them took me to the superintendent, who I found had been unable to walk without crutches for a long time.
I transacted my business and was about to leave, remarking I hoped to find him fully recovered on my next visit. He replied, "You will; but no thanks to the five doctors that have been treating me. They have done me no good." I said, "Perhaps you are ready to try something else." "I am, my brother," he replied, "and I am trying what you have in mind. I knew you were a Scientist before you talked ten minutes, and I am being treated absently. I am improving fast."
I said, "Let me see how fast; let us walk out under those apple-trees." He immediately arose with but little effort and with only a cane walked two hundred feet, something he had not done in months. The old Odd Fellows looked on in wonder.
"Now," I said, "meet me at the lodge to-night." "I will try," he replied; and he did meet me at the foot of the stairs, and with a little help walked up two flights.
His brother Odd Fellows were very much astonished to see him there. During the meeting a brother passed the cigars. He politely refused them, arose, and said, "My brothers, I have taken my last smoke, my last chew, my last drink, and my last dose of morphine." Oh, how happy his doing this in the lodge made me, for well did I know it was sure to be a seed that would bear abundantly. I have traveled in the dark thirty years; but thanks be to God and our Leader, I have for two years traveled in the light. If for one thing more than another, I am thankful for the strong desire that it has created in me to sow the seed, and that I am having such abundant opportunities to do it.— Milwaukee, Wis.
