My first healing in Christian Science was from stomach trouble, to periodical attacks of which I had been subject since a child. Many remedies were tried, including dieting, but without avail. About this time a friend visited me, and upon departing left a copy of the Christian Science Sentinel with me. This I read and reread, having at last found something which opened up an entirely new view of life to me, and revealed the God whom I had been seeking for years. Soon afterward I purchased the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and studied it diligently, with the result that the stomach attacks became less frequent, until they finally disappeared.
More recently I was healed of a carbuncle through the loving help of a Christian Science practitioner. An error I had been holding was the thought that a surgical operation might be necessary before relief could come. When this false belief was destroyed by the understanding that God needs no material aid, the healing was immediate. My gratitude is great for this manifestation of the Christ, Truth.
A very beautiful healing came to our little boy. We were living on a farm for the summer, and while about my household duties one evening, I heard a cry of distress from him. Striving to overcome the great sense of fear that welled up in my thought, I went to him, declaring the truth on the way. I perceived at a glance what had occurred: he had been kicked in the face by a horse. Carrying him into the house I realized, as never before, that there was but one thing to be done—to turn absolutely to God; and I found myself saying, "Father, he is not mine but Thine." With this relinquishing of the human hold on the child, the realization of man as the perfect child of God, forever immune from accident or pain, came to me; and in about ten minutes he was quietly sleeping. Later, when a friend came in, I went to the nearest farmhouse to telephone to a practitioner. The work was lovingly taken up, and the child slept quietly all night, although the testimony of the physical senses indicated severe injuries. The next morning, after a thirty-mile drive, a surgeon was consulted to determine if any teeth needed extraction. One was removed, but no pain whatever was experienced. In less than a week one would not have known (except for the premature loss of teeth) that any accident had occurred. This healing has been a great source of gratitude because it has taught me the truth of our dear Leader's words in Science and Health (p. 167), "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized."
