It was my privilege last summer to spend seven weeks in a country village where many people were longing for something besides drugs to cure them of their beliefs of sickness.
My first demonstration over a belief of spinal curvature in a child of three years attracted general notice to Christian Science Mind-Healing. It also proved to me the value of strong faith in Science on the part of the parents of a child.
This child had been a constant sufferer in belief for eighteen months. The mother had not had a full night's rest in all that time. When brought to me, protrusion of the chest, curvatures, swelling and inflammation were the symptoms visible to sense. The child had no appetite, and had been taking cod-liver oil for months. In one week the curves and swelling had disappeared; the boy was eating regularly. In three weeks' time he was perfectly well. The mother was not disturbed by him at night after treatment the second day, the child being free from pain.
