The first Christian Science healing in our family occurred in 1889, when my paternal grandmother was healed of a nervous breakdown after all other means had failed. This was one of the first healings in this community.
My mother began the study of Christian Science about 1896, when she was healed of a severe physical condition; and in 1910 I was healed of an alarming case of diphtheria. A practitioner was working for me, but the testing time came one night about midnight when we could not reach her. My throat seemed to be closing up, and my mother sat beside my bed and declared again and again that God was my life. She asked me to repeat it with her, which I was finally able to do in a whisper. When morning came the battle was won.
I was healed of hatred while I listened to a Christian Science lecture. I have been healed of a severe injury to the neck, also of influenza. At one time, while peeling vegetables, I ran the point of a paring knife into the palm of my hand. A few days previous to this I had been studying and pondering "the scientific statement of being," found on page 468 of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and by my declaring instantly that flesh had no intelligence to bleed or become sore, the flow of blood stopped right away and the mark disappeared very quickly.
