After hearing a lecture on Christian Science, I earnestly began its study. I felt that it could do for me all that the lecturer promised. Twelve years of this study have changed my whole outlook on life, and given me an assurance that "with God all things are possible."
Very early in my experience I had proof of its power to heal physically. In three treatments from a Christian Science practitioner our eight-months-old baby was healed of indigestion, which had troubled her from birth and for which we had had constant medical treatment. The wonderful assurance which came to me that she was God's perfect child, no matter what kind of formula I fed her, has stayed with me through the years, and our whole family has been completely free from belief in the power of food to harm or cure.
Other proofs of the power of God followed. One outstanding healing took place when the same child was almost two years old. She fell down the basement stairs, landing on a concrete floor. As I picked her up, the realization came to me that nothing had happened to harm her real selfhood, which was in God's care and could not be injured. I put her down, knowing all was well. As she started to walk, something seemed to be out of place, but the vision given me of her perfection and the impossibility of its being interrupted was so clear and strong that the words of Isaiah were proved true, "Before they call, I will answer." There was no effect whatever from the fall.
