It was my privilege at one time to have a young girl left in my care for five months. Her parents wished to see what Christian Science would do for her, as they received little encouragement elsewhere. The case was what the doctors call "not normal from birth." At the age of seven she had not spoken a word correctly. When sent to a private school, she learned in ten years to talk and read some, so that when given a word about which to construct a sentence she would usually form one the length of seven or eight words, omitting small words, and she could read in the first reader. This is what was accomplished in ten years without Christian Science, and with its help, she was, in five months constructing sentences from one to six lines long, seldom leaving out the pronouns and adjectives.
The special troubles seemed to be self-love, manifesting itself in self-will; mental overaction, and a lack in concentration of thought. Improvement in all ways was accomplished by understanding, even to a small degree, what the truth of man's being is—even a perfect expression of God—Mind—and that there is no power to prevent God's being made manifest in the flesh. In our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" p. 588, are these words: "Though the way is dark in mortal sense, divine Life and Love illumine it, destroy the unrest of mortal thought, the fear of death, and the supposed reality of error. Christian Science, contradicting sense, maketh the valley to bud and blossom as the rose."
Error would in many phases try repeatedly to hide all good results; but by standing firmly at such times, and striving to be faithful and steadfast in seeing the evidence of material testimony to be a falsehood, there would be some proof given directly that more good was already manifest than I knew.
