"If you knew God well enough, that cold would disappear like mist before the morning sun," was the answer of a Christian Science practitioner over the telephone to a mother fearful for her babe, but realizing faintly that Christian Science is the panacea for all earthly woes.
A few weeks before this, many mortal beliefs, calling themselves laws, had been destroyed at the birth of this child; and this with no previous knowledge of Christian Science, and only a little reading of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Beliefs of age were there, unrelaxed muscles, much fear, felt and expressed by everyone save nurse and practitioner, all supporting the consulting physician's ultimatum: "It is a physical impossibility; the child cannot be born!" For a time the attending physician had been hopeful, for he had seen many wonderful things done through Christian Science; indeed, he himself had been healed by Christian Science of a grievous trouble. As the hours dragged on, however, he too gave up and planned for an operation in the morning. But before morning came God's power was made manifest in an harmonious delivery, without one bad after effect.
That day in answer to the practitioner's declaration, "If you knew God well enough, that cold would disappear like mist before the morning sun," the wail went back to her, "But I do not know God well enough!" The loving practitioner, however, proved that knowing God does heal, for the difficulty was quickly met; and since that day the desire and the determination to understand Him, the only real power and presence, have been uppermost in that mother's thought.
