Christian Science has healed disease and discord for me many times. Over seven years ago my son, who was four years old at the time, fell from the front seat of a car which was traveling twenty-five miles an hour. The rear wheel passed over his head, fracturing his skull and driving a rock about the size of a small marble into his head. He was taken to a doctor and an X-ray picture was taken. This showed the rock, and that the skull was cracked on both sides and at the back. The next day the rock was removed. In a few days infection set in where the rock had been removed, and other serious complications arose. The boy kept getting worse until, after he had been in the hospital six weeks, we became discouraged and brought him home.
A loving neighbor, seeing our need, asked us to try Christian Science. We had been very much opposed to what we thought this Science was; but I had decided that the doctors could do nothing, so I went to a practitioner. She began to explain Christian Science to me, but I did not ask for help that day. My wife had not given up doctors yet and wanted to try a specialist in Los Angeles, and the next morning we started for that city. The specialist examined the boy and said the only thing he could do was to make him as comfortable as possible, for he could not live many days. It seemed necessary to cut out part of the boy's brain, and he said this was the part that moved the right side of the body; so the boy would never be able to walk if he did get better. This made me think of the practitioner, and of what she had told me. So I started home at once, leaving my wife and boy in Los Angeles. When I arrived home I asked for help in Christian Science. The boy was removed to my mother's home, and three days later walked to the door to meet the specialist, who was greatly surprised. To-day he is in school, takes part in all kinds of games, and is as strong as any boy of his size.
I have been healed of ptomaine poisoning, bruised limbs, dislocated back, influenza, and many other things. I am grateful to Mrs. Eddy and for her wonderful works, and for the practitioner.— Bakersfield, California.
