It is my desire to tell others that peace, joy, and the consciousness of God's presence will replace the fear and despair of the darkest human experience when help from Christian Science is enlisted.
This was first proved to me after the best efforts of medical doctors had failed to heal our young son of pneumonia. A Christian Science practitioner was called, but not until I had seen that the doctor was desperately anxious about the case, and had removed the boy to a hospital for a few last-resort attempts to save him. But these, too, failed, and after a consultation of doctors, in which they agreed in their belief that the child was dying, they turned to us and lovingly tried to prepare us for the end. They told us that they had gone as far as they could with their methods and that it was now "in divine hands."
I can never describe the wonderful sense of security and assurance of good that came to me as I turned away from the doctors and their admission of defeat. There is no human explanation for it, because it was not my custom to be hopeful of good in the face of such evidence. I know now that it was "the sign of Immanual, or 'God with us'" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, Pref., p. xi)—my first glimpse of Christian Science. The complete healing of the boy followed, and was brought about solely through the consecrated work of the practitioner, whose uncompromising, unfaltering stand for the truth was sufficient to overcome every false belief that seemed to surround him. We were later told that the case was taken up for discussion before a local medical clinic because of its unusual aspects.
