There are no words that will adequately express the deep debt of gratitude I owe to Christian Science for the innumerable blessings it has brought to me and mine. Since taking up the study of this beautiful religion, the years have been crowned with the goodness and the love of God, not because of any change in His attitude towards us, but because Christian Science is teaching us to know Him aright.
Through a slight understanding of the teachings of Christian Science, we have witnessed the healing of many sicknesses, such as whooping cough, pneumonia, astigmatism, and Spanish influenza, when the faculties of sight, speech, and hearing seemed to be destroyed. My mother was healed of cancer, with a complication of two other diseases, when her physicians said it was not possible for her to live more than a few days. After the second treatment in Christian Science a large cancerous growth entirely disappeared; and two weeks from the day she asked for help she traveled one hundred and seventy-five miles by train to my home. My daughter was knocked down at school, and dislocated one of the bones of her foot. Christian Science treatment was given; and in three days the foot, was perfectly normal. Through the splendid help given us by a Christian Science practitioner, our youngest daughter was very quickly healed of scarlet fever. A professional nurse, who happened to call at our home and saw the child, said: "Unquestionably this is scarlet fever. It can be nothing else." This was about five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. Next day we called a physician as necessitated by the law; and after thoroughly examining the child, he said, "There is absolutely no trace of any communicable disease." With the exception of a slight cough, every trace of the disease had vanished. On another occasion, acute heart disease was healed in two hours.
We are most grateful for the loving help of the Christian Science practitioner who realized so clearly the ever-presence of God and the nothingness of material belief. These physical healings have meant much to us, and we are deeply grateful for them; but they seem small, indeed, compared to the rich spiritual blessings that come to us through the study of Christian Science. I am grateful for the seemingly hard places we have encountered along the way; for they have taught us, as perhaps nothing else could, to "draw nigh to God," as the Bible tells us; and during these experiences God has lovingly and so abundantly fulfilled His promise, "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight;" "I will make darkness light before them" and "the rough places plain."
