I want to express my gratitude for all that Christian Science has done for me and for my entire family. Since I turned unreservedly to it nine years ago, healing has followed healing, and blessing followed blessing, until we count ourselves rich, not in worldly goods, but in health and spiritual strength, which money cannot buy. In these years my six children have had no material remedy. Our first healings were accomplished in the face of bitter opposition on the part of my husband, my father, and other adult members of the family.
Our first physical healing was one of scarlet fever. A week after I had sought the help of a practitioner for myself, our third child, then sixteen months old, became ill with the fever. Trembling with fear at taking this step in opposition to my husband, I called the practitioner, who very quietly assured me that everything would be all right and advised me to inform the city health department. This I did. A city nurse came to the house and grew very much excited when she saw my child's red face. She urged me to get him to bed and said she would send a doctor right out. For some reason the doctor did not get out for a day and a half, and when he did arrive the child was so completely healed there was no evidence to show there had been a disease. This healing greatly impressed my husband, and began the breaking down of his opposition to a religion he now embraces. Shortly after this healing our three children were healed of mumps in a day's time.
With the help which Christian Science afforded me, the births and infancy of our three younger children were beautiful experiences, quite different from the suffering and worry I had known with the others.
