Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-01-05 | Page 13 | Intends to Live as Christ Would Don Now

INTENDS TO LIVE AS CHRIST WOULD DO NOW LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 1. Dr. T. Percival Corson, a well-known physician of this city and present mcdicnl ex-'imiper ex-'imiper for the chil service commission, commis-sion, has given up his comfortable homo on Westlake avenue and removed to the thinly settled suburbs of the city, whore he aunonncos that ho will pra'c-tico pra'c-tico medicine without charge to his patients, pa-tients, livo in the greatest simplicity and otherwise order his life after hi's conception of how Christ would exist wcro ho on earth todny. Dr. Oorson is accompanied in his move, by his wifo and threo children. 1 1 o has for some time maintained offices iu a largo office building in the heart of tho city, and has an extensivo practice. Dr. Gersoti dcclaruK that ho is in uowiso fanatical, but that he believes that it is tho right way to live. Ho will accept voluntary contributions for his services, but will make no charge. "1 will live as Christ would live if He were on earth today," said Dr. Gerson. "Not becauso ho lived a simplo lifo, but because T bcJievc it is the only true and right lifo. "Undoubtedly criticism and mib-iindorstanding. mib-iindorstanding. ridicule, perhaps persecution, perse-cution, mny couio in consequence, but none but nn unworthy or a weak soul cau bo swerved from his path thereby."