It is a pleasure to write the details of Mr. C.'s healing of the morphine and alcohol habits. The gentleman came from Canada to New York last autumn, intending to enter a sanitorium; being at the time a physical and mental wreck. His family had written to a Canadian friend residing in New York, telling him the man's desperate condition, and asking his assistance in placing him where he could be properly cared for. This gentleman had himself been healed by Christian Science, and was a regular attendant at the services of First Church of Christ, Scientist, New York.
At his request Mr. C. agreed to give Christian Science treatment a trial, but I do not think he had then enough will-power to choose or reject; for when the practitioner first saw him every faculty seemed numb, and he talked but little. Two practitioners were consulted, both of whom, for good and sufficient reasons, were unable to take the case, and a third was then appealed to.
Before knowing anything of Christian Science this lady had suffered every pang that material sense can inflict from similar conditions with a member of her own family. At first it seemed impossible to face the old mental pictures; but self was overcome, and success crowned the effort to destroy this illusion from the very first treatment.
