After having been a sufferer for about four years with an internal trouble, I at last turned to Christian Science for help, as material remedies had done me no good. About five months later my baby was born without any of the suffering I had passed through on former occasions. About two years later my trust in God was put to the test when my husband awakened me one night by telling me I must do something for our oldest boy, then about two years and a half old, as he had croup in an alarming form.
When I saw the child I realized that something must be done at once, and tried to give him a material remedy. He, however, refused to take it, and the thought then came to me of what I was trying to do. I said to my husband that if that little child could see the nothingness of those things, we certainly ought to. The father then took him while I went into another room and opened the Bible to the fourteenth chapter of Exodus. I saw that the trial I was passing through was as nothing compared to what the children of Israel went through and God never failed them. I therefore held steadfastly to the thought that God is All-power and soon went back to where the little fellow was. His father had put him back to bed and he was fast asleep. That was nine years ago and there has never been a thought of using material remedies since. Two of our children were healed of typhoid fever, one of them never even going to bed. Diphtheria and smallpox were also overcome very quickly.
One time the oldest boy was taken with a severe throat trouble and the following afternoon it seemed best to call a practitioner, who treated him that evening. The next morning he was ready for his breakfast, being healed of the trouble. I have had many other beautiful demonstrations of the healing power of divine Love and it is with a deep sense of gratitude that I write what Christian Science has done for me. I have indeed experienced a "new heaven and a new earth."— El Reno, Okla.
