My little son Kinsey has asked me several times to write this demonstration for the pages of the Journal. He was awakened one morning about four o'clock by a severe fit of coughing, and I saw he had a high fever also. I was able to quiet him and he went to sleep. However, at seven o'clock he awoke suffering with his head and throat. I treated him for a long time, but he grew worse, and he finally said, "Mamma, if you will get Science and Health and read to me, that will do me good." I did so, and read to him from "Christian Science Practice" of the unreality of disease. I then laid down the book and had to leave him alone for about half an hour. When I returned to his room I found him quiet. He said, "Mamma, I feel all right. I got the thought that disease is only illusion, like the mirage you told me about, and the cough and headache all left me."
He has often been healed in this way. The reading does him much good. He is six years old, and has treated me successfully for headache and one other trouble when he was younger. I wish to express my grateful joy for the benefit to myself and children. As I grow in Truth I feel that there is something good always awaiting my next step, and thus life is a real pleasure, and I am blessed more than I can tell by Christian Science.
St. Louis, Mo.
