Over thirty years ago I was healed through Christian Science of what the doctors pronounced quick consumption. I had been sent to a climate considered safer for one with such a trouble; and it was there I learned that God is everywhere, and that "we live, and move, and have our being" in God, in Spirit, not in matter. Thus I was restored to health, home, and family; and I also had the added joy of finding the "pearl of great price," for I was the happy possessor of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, as well as of her other writings, and all the periodicals published by The Christian Science Publishing Society.
With the Christian Science Quarterly and the privilege of studying our Lesson-Sermons from the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, I have found myself fully equipped to meet the daily problems which have presented themselves through the years, with the additional help at times of a practitioner; the great blessing of class instruction has also been of much help.
Almost immediately after my own healing I had the following experience. My little daughter fell with a stick in her mouth. The stick penetrated the tonsil, which was torn open and bled profusely. This occurred in the evening. Through a quick application of the truth I had learned, the flow of blood was almost immediately stopped, as well as all suffering and pain. She seemed to experience no discomfort except when swallowing. By ten o'clock she was asleep. I sat by her bed all night realizing the fulfillment of the promises contained in the ninety-first Psalm; and I learned that night that God's children are surrounded with legions of angels, "God's thoughts passing to man; spiritual intuitions, pure and perfect; the inspiration of goodness, purity, and immortality, counteracting all evil, sensuality, and mortality"(Science and Health, p. 581). When morning came, it was as if nothing had happened. Her throat was perfect, with no scar, and one could not tell which tonsil had been bruised. She ate a hearty breakfast and was in her usual happy mood.
