As an item of experience in support of Science and Health, and its ever-glorious theories, the following testimony is respectfully submitted. A lady in one of the suburbs of Boston, through treatment by Christian Science, became deeply interested therein. Purchasing our textbook, she resolved to make its teaching of daily use in her family, so far as she could without a course of instruction. One day her little son, of about five summers, sat amusing himself, by drawing a pointed scissor-blade, (unriveted) across the string of his drum, to make music. Suddenly the string broke, causing him to jump. Throwing his hand up quickly, the sharp point entered the white of his eye. In great terror he shrieked, "Mamma, my eye is put out." Of course this brought her at once to the spot; but she said, "No darling, God loves you." Catching him up into her lap, she held him in the sense of God's embrace and protection, as best she understood from the teachings in the book, but paying no other heed to the injury, despite the child's entreaty, until the tumult had ceased, which lasted only a few moments. She then looked at the eye, which, to human sense, was badly bloodshot; but as she calmly reassured her thought in the sense of divine Love, all fear departed, and in a little while the boy was playing about as before.
There is no doubt that the mother's attitude of thought, then and there, was of untold value in the case; but to leave the matter here would be injustice to the Scientist attendant upon the lady, who saw the child later, and freely offered the benefit of her understanding, covering the needful points whereof the mother was before ignorant. Thus a noble endeavor was aided to complete success, so that in a very short time no trace of injury remained.
It is needless to question the ultimate of this injury. For the blessed unity of healing-truth here presented, there are marked conditions manifest to the world, and said to have been induced by the same or other similar causes. Investigate for yourselves! "Taste and see that the Lord is good."
