Christian Science came to me in an hour of dire need. Discouraged by the continued seemingly hopeless condition of our little boy (then about six years old), I was on my knees praying to be delivered from the darkness that seemed to surround me, asking God to take me out of it if there was no other way, but that if there was, please to show me that way, and suddenly I realized it was Christian Science that would lift me out of that darkness.
I had been for a number of years advising other mothers to send their children to the Christian Science Sunday School, where they would learn not to be afraid, and here was I asleep in material sense, not meeting the need of my own child. Two years before, this boy had come through an illness with five muscles of the eyes paralyzed, as the result of intestinal poisoning. Although he had been under the care of a family physician for two years and under an eye specialist for one year, there was no improvement and seemingly no hope of any. Despite my strict obedience to all the laws that had been laid down for him, as to diet, fresh air, and exercise, every little while he would come down with a stomach attack that seemed to endanger his life, after which he would be placed on a stricter diet for a few weeks, when the struggle would commence again.
After the awakening, the search for Truth began; and in a few weeks this little boy, and later a baby sister, were placed in the Christian Science Sunday School. The healing was not instantaneous; but gradually, as fear was overcome, he was permitted to eat anything that was placed before him; and after a few battles with error it was proved that food had no power to hurt him.
