According to an account given in an 1897 issue of the Journal, a man who had been an invalid for years and was unable to walk without using canes was visiting Boston. The Christian Science Journal, February 1897, p.550. "Sunday morning, hearing the chimes, he asked to what church they belonged. On being informed that it was the Christian Science Church, and that the worshipers in that church claimed to heal the sick, he went to the service. He said he had not been there long when a woman came in who was announced as Mrs. Eddy, and she gave a talk. She had not talked long, until all of a sudden he felt that he was healed. He did not miss his canes until after he reached the house of his friend."
Not only was the visitor healed physically but his character was transformed. An acquaintance, seeing him shortly after his healing, said: "I don't believe even he realizes the transformation that has taken place in him. I assure you I never saw so great a change in any person."
In a By-Law of the Manual of The Mother Church, entitled "welcoming strangers," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, extends a warm welcome to her Church to "persons of all sects and denominations who come to listen to the Sunday sermon ...." Man., Art. XVI, Sect. 1. We can make it our privilege and duty to do the same.
