"For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit." The above quotation from Paul's letter to the Corinthians, comes to my thought every time I visit the sick in the thickly populated Hebrew district of the lower East Side. The light of Christian Science shines everywhere, healing the sick and raising them from the false belief of life in matter.
The healing among the Jewish people is startling. There is not a known disease that has not yielded to the touch of Truth. Most of these people cannot read English, but they gain an understanding of this healing Principle through the Christian Scientist to whom they apply for help. An old lady laid up with rheumatism so that she has not had the use of her limbs for over three years, quotes some of the priceless pearls from the Christian Science text-book, which she has asked to be told so often in German that she remembers them. Being alone all day she repeats them over and over, knowing, that if she can gain the spiritual meaning of those words, she will no longer be a slave to disease. A young woman who had cancer of the breast and had undergone an operation without receiving any benefit, as the disease appeared again, was told by the physicians that the only help would be to remove the breast, but she was so weak and nervous from pain and fear, that she had not the courage to put herself again into the hands of the surgeon. In this condition she came to Christian Science and was healed.
A man who was in the last stages of consumption, being ordered by physicians to a warm climate if he wished to prolong his life, came for treatment. In a short time his condition was so changed that he could begin work (which he had not been able to do in two years), and now is entirely healed.
