THE Field may be interested to hear what is being done at our Alpine outpost of Christian Science.
The news of the newly risen Christ was first heard in this city about the year 1896 by way of correspondence, and several people became interested. A student of Christian Science appeared on the scene about the year 1898. Ever-wakeful Truth was not slow to put him on the track of those novices in Science who felt the need of help to understand this soul-stirring subject. Meetings were appointed at once, the study of Science and Health by Mary Baker G. Eddy being their object. A good beginning was inaugurated in this direction and attempts at healing were also bravely made. A New York friend assisted the Cause by placing Science and Health in four public libraries. The work was continued for about a year; then a pause ensued on account of the above-mentioned student's return to the United States. The meetings were stopped, but the studies were continued with more or less activity by each one privately. In the mean time several persons joined the original society, so that when the writer arrived in June of 1900, he found a class of fourteen people eager to begin with the study of the Bible-Lessons. Regular weekly meetings were now instituted, beginning with the first Wednesday of July, 1900. They were held at the writer's house first; then in December of the same year transferred to a rented hall. To-day the attendance is from fifty to sixty. For some reason the feeling did not seem favorable for the establishment of a Sunday service until lately. This we formally opened on the first Sunday of July, 1902, to be regularly continued. The attendance at this service at present is about forty.
When the writer began his work in July, 1900, a few cases of striking success brought in a number of applicants, willing to be healed by such an easy method, and this necessitated further help, which God sent in due time. Ever since December, 1900, three of us have been fairly busy all the time. We have demonstrated the divine Power in the healing of stomach troubles and headaches of many years' standing; of rickets, cancers, diseases of the lungs,bowels, kidneys, heart; and throat; indeed, of almost every conceivable disease. We long for the day when our spiritual horizon will appear sufficiently enlarged to be able to minister to the needs of every one who comes to us with the desire to be rescued from the distressing ills of mortal sense.
