Hannas Introduced To Christian Science and Healed By Its Study
While in Leadville in 1885, Judge Hanna and his wife first heard of Christian Science. His attention was attracted to it by the wonderful healing of two of his wife's most intimate friends whom he also knew well. This led to his wife's investigation of Christian Science. In 1886 Camilla received a New Years present from her father, in the form of the Christian Science Textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures written by Mary Baker Eddy. By the study of that book, alone, his wife was restored to health. She had been a semi-invalid for several years.
Partly from curiosity and partly through a reverential regard for a new religious belief that would bring such astonishing results, Judge Hanna decided to look further into Christian Science, wholly unable to forecast the outcome of it all. It was not long before he had received such marked relief from physical suffering through his wife's limited understanding of this new power that he began its serious investigation for himself. He took up the study of the Christian Science Textbook, much as he would a law book, and although he found many statements which impressed him as profoundly logical, he could not then grasp enough of the spiritual import of the book to make it, as a whole, intelligible.
Although Judge Hanna's health had improved as the result of his residence in Colorado, it was far from good, and he had much difficulty in meeting the severe demands of his profession. After taking up the study of Christian Science, he was aided by a woman then living in New Hampshire and finally relieved of Tuberculosis and nearly all his old ailments.
So deep an impression did this experience make on his mind that he began at once an earnest and systematic study of the text-book, Science and Health, and although for a time the unfoldment of its spiritual meaning was slow, it became more and more a part of his innermost consciousness until finally, nolens volens, he accepted it as the most logical and rationalistic interpretation of spiritual truth which had ever come to his knowledge.
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