For the benefit of the little ones who like to know what other children are doing, I will tell how this small band has increased since we organized, and the work it has done.
We began with an attendance of two; we now average twenty each Sunday, divided into four classes. These little workers have bought a clock for the Christian Science Reading-Room; placed a copy of Science and Health in the Home for the Aged, and one in the Young Men's Christian Association; a copy of "Miscellaneous Writings" in the Public Library, and one in the Millicent Library in Fairhaven, across the river.
The older children are in my class. I asked them a few Sundays ago how many had been healed by the Truth, and every voice bore testimony. My gaze rested on the little boy about whom I told you in the October Journal. I will now tell you more about this case, for it has taught me much. The claim was a large abscess on the face. The child had been taken to a physician and had been frightened on hearing that the swelling should be lanced immediately. They had two hard nights and days with him, then he asked for me. The pain and distress was relieved after the first treatment, and he was able to play out of doors, read, and amuse himself as he wished. The whole neighborhood was in commotion. People talked to the child when they heard he was having the Science. They told him he would die of blood-poisoning and lock-jaw; but the family held firm, and although the feeling ran so high that one of the neighbors said if the boy died, the father and myself should be arrested, we bear witness that God protected us all. In three weeks from the time it first appeared, it disappeared, leaving no scar, and the boy was back in school. The peace and security in the Truth that came to that household was wonderful.
