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A Physician’s Story I was summoned one Sabbath evening to see a man whom I knew had been a hard drinker. He told me that he had been at it again, and must have relief. He was sober now, and was alone in the house. His family had deserted him two days or so before, and his wife had declared she would not return, feeling it to be useless. He was facing the loss of his position un less he could be “fixed up” by the follow ing day, and altogether he was very wretched. I had left him to look for something in ah adjoining room, and he followed me and entered into conversation. I asked him where he expected to go when he died. “I don’t know.” I told him it would be terrible to go out into eternity not knowing where it was to be spent. He seemed more concerned with the present, however, and with getting the desired relief. I was not his regular phy sician, but had once warned him against his continued drinking. I now told him again what it would mean here and here after to continue as he was doing. As suring him of some relief, I pressed him about Christ. He finally consented and we knelt together in the empty house. He confessed his sin and asked forgive ness, accepting Christ as his Saviour. He took one drink that same night and one the following, both of which he reported voluntarily to me. They have' been the last, though it is now several months since his conversion. I saw him almost dailv for a week thereafter, and he seemed earn est and a free man. He was quite eager about his progress in spiritual things, and I am told that his life is entirely different. He has been praying and regularly reading his Bible and some literature I gave him. Late on that Sabbath evening his family, not knowing what had transpired, felt led for some reason to return home. Two hours before that his wife was determined not to return. They slipped in quietly without disturbing the husband. The next day the kind attentions of his wife broke him down, and he accepted Jesus.
of the country, living in no.-license terri tory. In the last five years the no-license population has increased a little over 10.- 000 , 000 . Eddyism’s Abuse of the Bible On one occasion Queen Victoria went to the Treasure Chamber at Windsor Castle, and taking up a very rich but small crystal casket of exquisite workmanship, put into it the Bible which General Gordon had in his pocket at Khartoum, his daily support and comfort. It was worn, marked, thumbed, old and soiled. It had helped to create that life, to raise it high, to make it pure and strong, to fill it with faith, with light and with hope. This, book was the greatest factor in making General Gor don’s life, and this Bible in the crystal casket is a type of the place the Bible holds in the hearts of the people who love it. It is a type of the place it is destined to hold in the life of the redeemed race. Re deemed humanity is the crystal shrine of the well-used Bible. This is the place this book holds to you and to me, and whatever seeks to interfere with this enshrinement is an enepiy to our best interest. To be an enemy to the Bible does not hurt the Bible but it hurts the man, and it hurts man. It is just here Christian Science comes and lays violent hands on the teachings of this sacred book. Christian Scientists af firm, and practice a doctrine of “spiritual” interpretations which reduce the Bible from an inspired message able to make us wise unto salvation, to a lot of esoteric, inane and mystical meanings of no use here or hereafter. The book Science and Health has a Glossary of thirty-six pages, giving all sorts of fanciful meanings, e. g. Adam has six and twenty meanings and repre sents four things besides. “Gad (Jacob’s son) Science, Spiritual being, understood; haste towards harmony.” “Gihon (river), The Rights of Woman, acknowledged mor ally, civilly and socially.” “You, a personal and material belief, finity; mortality; er ror.” The Bible is anything or nothing in their hands.
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