I should like to give thanks for the healing and regenerating power of Christian Science. About six years ago, a few weeks before my baby was born, I was to mortal sense dangerously ill. According to the medical verdict there was little hope for either the child's life or mine.
I knew very little about Christian Science then, but I somehow felt it was my only hope; so I asked for a practitioner. As soon as she entered my room I felt the presence of Love, and my heart went out to her. Up till then Christian Science had not meant much to me because I used to struggle and fight with it. In my great need I turned to God and said, "If only I could understand," and as clearly as if a voice had spoken, these words came to me, "Except ye ... become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom." Then I saw that that was the only way to get in, and I determined that I would just trust God to reveal to me as much as I could bear. As if in answer to my prayer, I turned to my Bible and found these words: "He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young;" and I thought, These promises are true; I will trust and not be afraid.
I took it then in the literal meaning, but it was also true that I was young in thought. During the weeks that followed I was upheld in a most wonderful way by the loving help of the practitioner. Words can never say how grateful I am to God, whose love was being manifested to me in a way that I could understand.
