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call at his house. He lived out of town. I went to his house, 

 and spent the greater part of an evening trying to prevail upon 

 these two people to show me or to introduce me to these subjects 

 of locomotor ataxia and cancer of the tongue. They utterly re- 

 fused to do so. Their line of argument was quite of the same sort 

 as that contained in the letter of their better-known " brother in 

 the church," which appears earlier in this paper. I was not in- 

 vestigating in the right way. What I ought to do was to study 

 Science and Health and the other elucidatory works — above all 

 with an obedient spirit, and " the truth " would come to me in 

 time. Or it may be this pair of " healers " had in mind this rea- 

 soning, not new in my observation of this odd cult: In the mind 

 of the Christian Scientist the locomotor-ataxia patient was healed, 

 but he was withheld from inspection by the deceptive senses of 

 those outside the Christian-Science pale, to which senses the pa- 

 tient might appear to stagger about and be as ill or more ill than 

 ever before. I'ollowing is this " healer's " letter to me : 



"My dear Dr. Huber: I received your letter with Joy, and 

 name next Monday eveng as a time to give you for your enquiry into 

 the workings of Truth as it has come under my notice. Our field 

 is a broad one coverig several towns, and we have not lately had 

 an eveng free for discussin the subject coverig this sublime and 

 stately Science That leads into all Truth even to the solving of the 

 problem of Being. The healing of the sick is only the primary 

 steps this step however is an important one as its demonstration 

 with proof attests its divine origen even God — Good, its principle 

 source and ultimates in Eternal Life. For the Life is in his Son 

 and Divine Science reveals this son Even our own Christ our spir- 

 itual Individuality God being our Father and mother, 



" Yrs. in Truth 



The writer of this letter is the leader of that Christian-Science 

 church in New Jersey a member of which was a woman who died, 

 in June of this year, of consumption,* and this woman's " healer " 

 was the writer's wife. The woman who died left the Episcopalian 

 Church and became a Christian Scientist in January, 1899. In 

 April she contracted a heavy cold, to which she gave no attention. 

 Her husband remonstrated with her, and wished her to consult a 

 physician, but she would not do so. She declared she could not 

 be ill, but that she Avas well and happy. The services of her 

 " healer " were the only ministrations she received. In the be- 



* New York Times, June 24, 1899. 



