The words from our text-book, the "unlabored motion of the divine energy in healing the sick" (Science and Health, p. 445), sent my thought back over the years that the divine energy has been brought to bear upon the health of my loved ones and myself. The contrast between the Christ-healing and the relief which sometimes came under the old method of treatment is great. The excitement and grief of the household, the long hours of watching and care; in short, all the anxiety and abnormal conditions which prevail in the home where sickness is, are replaced in Christian Science by the calm of the "unlabored motion of the divine energy."
One case of healing stands out very clearly, because it was a most beautiful exposition of the fact that sickness is not the truth of being. A year ago last summer I was called home to find my little son of six lying very still and white, apparently at death's door. A Christian Science practitioner soon followed me, and a change for the better was noted from the first treatment. To comply with the law regarding so-called contagious diseases, a physician was called to diagnose the case, but it was not until months later that I knew his diagnosis. I was not concerned about it, as I realized that healing for my child did not come from any mortal. Day by day under the practitioner's care the child improved. The normal action of practically every organ of his body had been impaired; but one by one these limitations disappeared before the declarations of Truth's power. One day he opened his eyes for an instant. A few days later he turned off his back on to his side. Then he sat up to take his food. And so the improvement went on, silently and beautifully, without human effort, the child responding to the truth as declared in Christian Science.
Within a month every condition was normal again. Some time after, at the physician's request, I spoke with him for a few moments at his office. He then told me that when he stood at the bedside of my little boy he only expected to be called back to the house to sign the death certificate, because he felt sure the child could not live until morning, and that he had never known such a serious case of tubercular spinal meningitis to be cured by materia medica. Many other proofs of what Christian Science can do have been vouchsafed me, in the spiritual realm as well as the physical. But as our revered Leader says, "Gratitude is much more than a verbal expression of thanks" (Science and Health, p. 3), and I desire that my life may attest my sincerity.— Minneapolis, Minn.
