A grateful acknowledgment of what the truth has done for us, should be as natural to us as the song is to the bird when the first warm rain gives promise of opening spring. And yet, so loath is mortal mind to yield to the government of the Divine, that I have found myself making all manner of excuses for withholding this testimony of the ever-presence of infinite good. About twelve years ago I began the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, and while taking my first feeble steps, and before I was willing to dispense with the services of a physician, the advent of a second daughter into our home dispelled all doubt, and my family and I realized the infinite truth of Christian Science.
This being a case of placenta previa and its accompanying hemorrhage, it seemed that I was about to pass on from loss of strength, and I so told my dear ones who were with me. My husband then asked where my Christian Science was. I answered that I knew it was not at fault, but that I had lost sight of it in my sense of suffering. Immediately, with my husband's help, I realized that in omnipresent God is all strength and power, and that, as I live, move, and have my being in Him, I at that moment had all strength, and that no bodily condition could diminish it. At once absolute strength was manifested, and parturition was effected naturally. All the conditions became normal immediately, and the physician heartily congratulated us. He had told my husband that there was little or no hope of the case, as he had had but two of a similar nature and had lost them both.
Many times since then have we had evidences of an ever-present help in trouble, and perhaps I might mention another beautiful instance of the entirety with which Truth meets our needs, in the case of the daughter to whose advent I have just referred. At about the age of seven years she cut some teeth which a dental law decrees should not appear until about the twelfth year. Their supposedly premature arrival seemed to confuse the order of development, until we were shocked to find that in many parts of the mouth there were three teeth trying to occupy the place of one. Some of these projected toward the tongue, and some toward the cheeks and lips, presenting a most unpleasant appearance. As parents, we decided that something definite must be done, and appealed to our teacher for help. He assured us that Truth was omnipotent with us as with him, and that for our own growth it would be better for one of us to take the case, and so it came to me. At first I was almost appalled with the seeming weight of the work, and had to dispel my own fear before treating the child. I was soon filled with the consciousness of God's infinite harmony; a line of one of our beautiful hymns came to me, and I repeated it over and over, "God's will is done; His kingdom come!" It seemed that I had nothing else to do but to know that Divine harmony alone was present, there and then. Within a week or two the superfluous teeth began to loosen and drop out, and by the end of two or three months all had gone but one. I was surprised and greatly rebuked, during a Wednesday evening meeting, to hear our little daughter give this testimony, and announce that all the extra teeth had disappeared except one, and she expected that to go in a day or two. Her confidence was so perfect that she came to me the next morning with the tooth in her hand, saying it had just fallen out.
