Christian Science came to my rescue a few months after "the last enemy" had entered my home and, as it seemed to me then, had left me desolate and alone with a little ten-months-old babe to rear and provide for. I had fallen into such a state of grief that I often found it difficult to be courteous, and I would say to myself that I did not care anything about a God who would treat me like this. But now, Christian Science has shown me that God is infinite Mind, Life, Truth, and Love, ever present, and always available to help us solve our problems if we approach Him with a humble desire to let Him direct our steps.
From earliest childhood I had been susceptible to colds. The coming of winter always meant for me a rapid succession of them. Since Christian Science came into my life there has been so marked a decrease in these that it has occasioned comment from others. Twice during the last twelve years I have experienced a quick healing of influenza. Twice also has Christian Science enabled me to take my place in a dentist's chair and, without material help of any kind, experience the painless extraction of wisdom teeth.
My little daughter had her finger mangled in an automobile door. I was called by telephone and told that she had already been taken to a physician and that she might lose her finger. In spite of this pronouncement and of the daily prediction that I might as well make up my mind that she would have a badly deformed finger, a close inspection of her hand is necessary to-day to detect which was the injured finger. I am especially grateful for the untold help which Christian Science has been to me in my effort to eject from my mental household bitter resentment over what to personal sense seemed a great wrong and injustice, and to realize that it is my business to reflect only love. It is helping me to be less critical and more tolerant. But, most of all, I am grateful for the progress that I have made in overcoming fear. Having been brought up with the belief of a very weak throat and with a great fear of diphtheria, and having been told repeatedly that if I ever came in contact with it I should probably pass on, over six years ago without a tremor of fear in my heart I listened to a physician say, "Your child has diphtheria." I was wonderfully sustained and protected through the entire experience, and through the aid of Christian Science my home was freed from quarantine regulations in much less than the usual time.
