Jaundice Healed

Mrs. Eddy drove into Concord one day and stopped at the Christian Science Hall, and Mr. Calvin Frye, her secretary, went in with a letter, leaving the carriage door open. A gentleman who was standing in front of the hall had called at Pleasant View earlier in the day to see Mrs. Eddy but was told she could not see him, and that an appointment or an opportunity might be arranged later. As he went away from the house he was very discouraged and said, so that a worker heard him, “There may not be any later.”

This man stepped to the carriage, took off his hat, and said, “Mrs. Eddy?” Mrs. Eddy said, “Yes.” “May I ask you a question?” “Certainly!” she said. Then he said, “Can you tell me about God, who is He, where is He, and what is He?” Mrs. Eddy told him that God was his Mind, his Life, and continued talking just three minutes. Then the man looked at the clock, which they could both see, and said, “I have learned more in these three minutes about God than I have in all the rest of my life.” He raised his hat and said Good-bye,” and the carriage drove off. Mrs. Eddy afterwards told her students that she saw he was suffering from jaundice and that as she talked with him, she saw the unhealthy color fade from his face like the shadow of a cloud vanishing away, and his face became perfectly normal. She added, “He was healed, but he did not recognize it while we were talking.” The next day the man wrote he was completely healed, and that he took the train home that same night.