In the fall of 1913 my mother-in-law asked me to try Christian Science for chronic constipation. I knew nothing about Christian Science, but to please her I went to a practitioner and was healed in one treatment. This was a surprise and joy to me, for I had suffered many years. The next summer, when our first baby was six months old, we moved to a mountain ranch thirty miles from a railroad or town, with very poor mountain roads, and mail service only twice a week. The following week the baby had whooping cough. I wrote to the practitioner who had so lovingly helped me before, and in ten days the baby was entirely free. Being so isolated, we had to turn unreservedly to God for guidance and protection.
Whenever Christian Science was honestly applied it never failed. We have seen blood poisoning yield several times —one time when physicians advised amputating an arm; broken bones have been set without the aid of a surgeon; also pneumonia, measles, chicken pox, and influenza have been healed.
One healing stands out, as it proved that statement of Mrs. Eddy found on page 167 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized." One night it suddenly became apparent that premature childbirth was to take place. We were alone with two small children. A blizzard was raging and the snow was very deep, so that no road was open even to our nearest neighbor, three miles away. My husband read and worked in Christian Science the entire night. Toward morning, after the birth of the baby, severe hemorrhages began. It was clear that we would have to get a message to a practitioner, so my husband asked me to hold to the thought that God is my Life, while he went to the neighbor. This neighbor was very antagonistic to what he thought Christian Science to be, so when my husband came asking him to send a telegram to a practitioner and also take a message to a cousin on another ranch who was a student of Christian Science, he hesitated about doing it, saying, "What is the use? she will die anyway." However, he delivered the messages and my cousin came. I had been unconscious for hours as a result of the hemorrhages, and these were so severe that my husband and cousin had to turn resolutely away from the material evidence.
