In loving recognition of what Christian Science is doing for all mankind, I give this testimony. My telephone rang one morning, and when I answered it a strange voice informed me that my daughter had drunk a glass of water in which a bichloride of mercury tablet had been dissolved. I quickly calmed myself, called a practitioner, who offered to take me across town in her car, and we were soon at the apartment where my daughter lived. In the meantime, however, an ambulance had been called and a quick run made to the emergency hospital. Arriving there I found that a stomach pump had been used, and that the patient was out of immediate danger. Her husband not being a Christian Scientist, medical treatment was continued for two or three weeks. All the while that the physician was putting forth his best efforts to save the patient, he was continually predicting woeful results. "If she lives through it," he would say, "she will lose her child [she was with child at the time], or it will be deformed, either physically or mentally." Another physician was called, but his diagnosis and predictions served only to augment the unfavorable forecast made by his associate.
Later, the physicians were dismissed and a Christian Science practitioner called. Treatment was begun at once, and in a little less than an hour the practitioner left the house, saying, "The truth has been declared, and it cannot fail." I went into what had been the sick room and found my daughter with a radiant face and asking for something to eat. I offered to bring her food, but she said, "No, I will go to the kitchen myself and get it;" and she did so. I realized then that she was healed— the demon of fear had left us both.
In due time the child was born— a boy, perfectly normal both physically and mentally! and I never have witnessed such an harmonious, painless birth. In three days the young mother was about the house as usual.
