One morning this summer while I was away from home, my little boy, four years old, fell from our dining-room window, landing flat on his back. That was two stories and a half from the ground. He was picked up insensible and carried into the house, and when I found him was groaning constantly. As soon as he saw me he said. "Treat me, mamma." I took him in my arms and treated him, trying most of all to overcome my fear: he soon fell asleep and I laid him down. As I took up Science and Health this passage came to me from page 491, beginning. "When the illusion of sickness or sin tempts you, cling steadfastly to God and His idea. Allow nothing but His likeness to abide in your thought." As I repeated this the sense of fear entirely left me.
He soon wakened, and as it was lunch time I offered him some milk. He tried to sit up, but fell back on the pillow very faint. I said, "Jimmie, what makes you groan so>" He answered, "My back pains." This I denied vigorously, and he then asked to be carried into another room. I lifted him up and stood him on his feet, but he sank to the floor, saying, "Mamma, I can't walk." I said, "Jimmie, God's child can always walk," and I took him out to the hall and let him hold on to the wall and my hand, and in this way he managed to keep up, trying very hard to help himself, and I kept on telling him that he was God's child, and of course he could walk. By four o'clock he was perfectly well, and when the neighbors came in to inquire about him they found him running around as usual. He has never had any further trouble from the fall. I know that I could never have made this demonstration without the knowledge of God which I have obtained by studying the Bible in connection with Science and Health. I have found the Bible a new book when read with the spiritual interpretation which our text-book, Science and Health, gives us.
While I am deeply grateful for the physical healing, I feel that the spiritual uplifting which I have received is by far the greater blessing, for I can now say, Whereas once I was blind, now I can see; and deaf, now I can hear.
