My only child was healed by Christian Science of a disease doctors had failed to cure. Before leaving me the healer said, "Now try to realize he is God's child. He will surely care for him." I asked what I should do if a certain claim I feared should touch him, as it always had in winter in such a violent form that we were obliged to work as rapidly as possible to save him.
Not long after came the test. I tried to hold to God, and think of the beautiful Truth the healer had explained, how it had fed and satisfied me, but still the error raged. After several hours, becoming almost beside myself with fear, I resorted to the old appliances and remedies, toiling eight long hours with no sign whatever of deliverance. Then, discouraged, I hurriedly left the room, and throwing a wrap over me, went out into the cold, crisp air, saying, "I will never come in until I find my God." Instantly came the voice, "Abide in me, and I in you"(John 15: 4). What I experienced I can never explain. The fear was gone. I knew my boy was well, and said it aloud as soon as I entered, before seeing that the error had disappeared entirely. My child then slept four hours, as quietly as though there had been no suffering.
A few months after this it was my great privilege to enter a class taught by our dear Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy. Among the many wonderful things she taught us, was the power of Love expressed through the Scripture, coming to us in a "still, small voice" in some great need, and how it would sustain and still the troubled waters as nothing else could do. I then knew my experience was true and of God.
