In a family of six children there have been many children's diseases. Some were overcome instantaneously through Christian Science, others took longer to heal. Our little daughter, aged two, while playing on the bed, jumping up and down, fell out, striking her elbow on a chair as she was falling. She screamed, and when her mother picked her up the child was very pale. Her mother pleaded God's allness and ever-presence, and in twenty minutes the child stopped crying and began to play around again; but the arm hung limp at her side, and remained so for four days. She came to meet me on my way home from work on the fifth day. I saw the arm dangling, and was so filled with fear that I remarked to myself, "Look at that arm!" and the next moment exclaimed, "But praise be to God!" On the sixth day she was sitting at the table when we noticed her raise her arm to her mouth; and since then the arm has been perfectly normal.
I am very grateful for the overcoming of the tobacco habit. I used tobacco in all its forms for thirty-five years, being an especially heavy cigarette smoker. Profanity was overcome the first hour I entered the Christian Science church.
My wife has been healed of hemorrhoids of fifteen years' standing, and of severe headaches and throat trouble. One healing through the work of a practitioner I should like to mention was of complications following whooping cough. This started us in the grand teaching, though the case looked very dark at times. The child had gone from sixty-five pounds to thirty-five pounds in weight. After twelve weeks she became a wonderful, rebuilt child.
