I should think that any formula that would divert the mind from unwholesome channels and force it into healthy ones would answer every purpose with some people, though not with all.

I think it most likely that a very religious man would find the addition of the religious spirit a powerful reinforcement in his case.
The second witness testifies that the Science banished "an old organic trouble," which the doctor and the surgeon had been nursing with drugs and the knife for seven years.
He calls it his "claim." A surface-miner would think it was not his claim at all, but the property of the doctor and his pal the surgeon--for he would be misled by that word, which is Christian-Science slang for "ailment." The Christian Scientist has no ailment; to him there is no such thing, and he will not use the hateful word.

All that happens to him is that upon his attention an imaginary disturbance sometimes obtrudes itself which claims to be an ailment but isn't.
This witness offers testimony for a clergyman seventy years old who had preached forty years in a Christian church, and has now gone over to the new sect.

He was "almost blind and deaf." He was treated by the C.S.
method, and "when he heard the voice of Truth he saw spiritually." Saw spiritually?
It is a little indefinite; they had better treat him again.
Indefinite testimonies might properly be waste-basketed, since there is evidently no lack of definite ones procurable; but this C.S.

magazine is poorly edited, and so mistakes of this kind must be expected.
The next witness is a soldier of the Civil War.