It gives us great joy to tell what Christian Science has done for us. Before we understood its teaching we seemed to have our full share of trouble and difficulty. We had a very sickly child who had convulsions every ten or fifteen minutes for twenty-four hours at a time. We employed one doctor after another, until we had had seven of them. One of the best doctors in the city came to see our child, but he said he would not undertake to cure a disease that had never been known to be cured. He also said we could read of it in the Bible, but that there never was any cure for it.
After the doctor left, I asked God to take my child rather than have him suffer so; and after that I felt comforted. Then my husband told me of a famous doctor, and we had him treat our boy for five years; but he did not improve. The boy was then eight years old, and a few days later, when I was telling a friend how badly we felt about him, she asked me why we did not try Christian Science. So I took the child to a practitioner, who said, "Your child need not suffer, for God is All-in-all, and you must trust to Him." I took the boy home to see what his father thought, and to get his consent to have him treated in Christian Science. We then wrote for the practitioner to treat him, and he was cured in a week. This healing was over two years ago, and the child has been well ever since.
We had been brought up in a Christian way and were always praying for our child to get better, but our prayers did not seem to be answered until he was treated by Christian Science. We are deeply thankful for all that this truth has done for us. Words fail to express it, but they that love will understand.— Ibapah, Utah.
