In the year 1923 my mother-in-law seemed to be suffering from vertigo and wondered if she ought to have her eyeglasses changed. She went to see an optician, who, upon examining her eyes, said he could not change her glasses without a prescription from an oculist, since she had a cataract on one eye. Knowing that we could not get the glasses without the prescription, I took her to an eye specialist. After an extensive examination, he told us that she had a cataract on one eye and there was one forming on the other eye, and said that in addition to this she had high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries. Taking me aside, he said that this poor woman was in very bad shape and would have to be under his treatment for a long time to come. After leaving his office, we straightway sought the help of a Christian Science practitioner and told her just what had taken place. She most encouragingly and lovingly told my mother-in-law that she did not have to accept as real these so-called laws that had just been suggested to her; as they were all man-made and powerless to harm her, she need not fear them. Work in Christian Science was at once begun, and in fifteen days every vestige of the trouble was entirely overcome.
However, Mrs. Eddy tells us in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 564) that "the serpent is perpetually close upon the heel of harmony;" and so it seemed in this case. Just six months after this complete demonstration, my mother-in-law was stricken with the grippe, and on the second evening she seemed as though about to pass on. Almost immediately we telephoned to the practitioner for help, and eleven minutes afterward my mother-in-law was perfectly normal again. This occurrence, however, caused me to stop to think that had anything, happened to her, her own daughters, who were not in favor of Christian Science, might criticize me for not having had a physician. Therefore I decided to call a physician to make an examination. Upon telling him what had occurred during the past two days he said: "Oh, she must have heart trouble. At her age that must be expected." I remained downstairs during the examination, and when he came down he told me in great astonishment that she had no such thing, but had a perfect heart; in fact, that all her organs were in perfect condition; but he said that he would come again the next day to take her blood pressure. This he did, and again to his astonishment found that her blood pressure was equal to that of a woman of forty years. I then said, "Doctor, she is just seventy-four years old today;" and he said, "She is indeed a wonder." Two years after this experience she took a trip to California, and has never had any return of the conditions mentioned.
With unceasing gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me and mine and all the world, I am daily striving to learn more of this great truth.— Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
