"The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword." These words were proved to me to be true when my eight-year-old son was healed of appendicitis. He was taken ill one Thursday night. I worked for him in Science until Sunday night, when I called on a practitioner for help as the child's suffering seemed to be getting more intense: there was fever, and at times he became delirious. By Wednesday the fever had left, but the suffering was still severe, and conditions were such that a practitioner was with us all that night, working continually. About an hour after she had left the next day the child had a movement of the bowels for the first time in nine days. This was repeated on Friday; and on Saturday the movement was normal. The pain still hung on, however, until Saturday evening. While I was preparing dinner, and after he had refused something to eat an hour before, he said he would have dinner with his daddy and me. His voice was so changed that I stepped to the door of his room to see—what words cannot express, but surely the glory of the Lord shone round about; and I sent up a prayer of thanksgiving to our Father-Mother God. The child was healed, and I knew it and he knew it; for he said, "Mother, I seem to be so happy." And he was happy, for he sat up and talked of many things. He was like a flower that has been refreshed. He ate his dinner with the family that evening; and the whole household slept all that night, for the first time in ten nights. He was up and dressed the next day and entered into all the activities, as it was the day before Christmas. Surely our Christmas meant much to us, for the Christ had been born again in our consciousness, and our hearts were filled with love and gratitude to God, "who health all thy diseases."
What but the Christ, Truth, could have brought the joy of that healing, or could have brought about the many healings that took place in our consciousness during those days of trial? I am truly grateful for this wonderful proof of the healing power of Christian Science—grateful for the loving service of the practitioners; grateful to Mary Baker Eddy, who has made this Science, which is the Science of being, available to all mankind; grateful to Christ Jesus, whose experiences and proofs made him the Way-shower; and grateful to God, who is the Father and Mother of us all. May my life prove this gratitude.— Portland, Oregon.
