During the nine years in which we have been interested in Christian Science, we have had so many blessings showered upon us that I have not words strong enough to express all the gratitude I feel to God, and to our dear Mother for all Christian Science has been to us. By it both my husband and myself were given our health after years of suffering, and our little daughter, six years old, has never known anything but Christian Science. We have never in these nine years resorted to material remedies. Although numerous claims have manifested themselves, our remedy, Divine Love, has met every need.
A claim of croup was met in a few minutes through the realization that "Perfect love casteth out fear," and never returned, although our chubby little girl was often suggested by mortal mind as a good subject for it.
Scarlet fever was completely overcome in a day, while others exposed at the same time endured weeks of suffering. While thinking over the ills which—too numerous to give in detail—have been met and overcome in Science, I have also fully realized our Mother's love and watchfulness in the helpful thoughts she had given us, enabling us to protect ourselves and others from the manifestations of discord and disease we mothers so often find all about us. Through realizing our dependence upon only the Divine laws of harmony and Love, I have been able thoroughly to put aside all fear; and claims of chicken-pox, measles, mumps, and whooping-cough did not even manifest themselves, even though our little daughter has been right with those having these troubles.
In our neighborhood, not long ago, four little playmates had scarlet rash and measles, and when Helen was playing about the houses, members of each family asked her if she were not afraid of catching it, and she said, "Oh no, God takes care of me all the time, and I can't be sick." Her own faith and trust in God's care is so strong that she needs no other protection. Claims of nearly all kinds were met when a baby by taking her in my arms and reading from Science and Health; and as she grew older she would ask to be read to when in trouble. Her faith in the help from the book has been so strong that several times I have found her sitting with it in her lap, apparently reading passages she remembers from it, although she does not read yet. Although Helen has had nine teeth filled, she has no more fear of going to a dentist than of making any other call, and suffers no pain.
I think no one more fully appreciates the help to be received from Christian Science than we mothers who have entrusted to us the direction and care of the little ones. When we know that they are being led by Truth and governed by the Divine laws alone, how much of the sorrow and suffering from the bondage to the senses we older ones have had to work out from, we shall be able to save them; and what a constant guide we have in their every-day training. Thinking over all these blessings, how can one express all the gratitude we feel for the peace and ever-present help Christian Science brings into our home.
Seattle, Wash.
