I Must tell how beautifully the word of truth overcame error in the form of earache with my little boy two years and two months old.
He awoke about one o'clock at night, complaining of his ear, and seemed to be in great pain. I gave him a treatment, but the claim did not seem to yield at once, so I got up and sang, "Shepherd, show me how to go," his favorite hymn; then sang, "In atmosphere of Love divine," as they are given in the Christian Science Hymnal. He fell asleep and I retired with him, but he soon awoke and began to complain of his ear again.
I thought to myself, "Truth is mighty and will prevail," and began at once to repeat the Scientific Statement of Being, as given in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, p. 464. He cuddled down in bed beside me and became quiet, but I did not notice how much he was listening until I had repeated about half of it. I repeated it slowly: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, or substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All in all." The child has a way if he does not thoroughly understand anything of saying "Hu?" and then we repeat it to him; so when I said "for God is All in all," he said, "Hu?" in his sweet, little, earnest voice, and I repeated that part over to him again. Before I had finished the rest of it he was sweetly sleeping and did not wake again until morning, when he got up bright and happy. We have five children, and with our first two we had a great deal of this kind of trouble.
