In my early childhood Christian Science instantaneously healed my mother of a spinal difficulty with which she had been born. Various physicians throughout the country, including her half brother, had said she could never be well, predicting blindness within six months if she lived. Shortly after her first healing she lost her glasses and never needed to wear them again. She spent more than thirty years in the practice of Christian Science, and many members on each side of our family, because of her healing, became interested and have served the Cause of Christian Science in various capacities. It has proved to be the Comforter for us all.
The "Rule for Motives and Acts" (Manual of The Mother Church by Mrs. Eddy, Art. VIII, Sect.1), read from the desk of every Christian Science church on the first Sunday in each month, proved significant in a recent experience I had. I went to bed one evening suffering from influenza. Being unsuccessful in reaching a practitioner, I turned my thought wholly to the truth of being.
In considering the claims of the malady, I recalled that Webster's dictionary states that influenza is "an epidemic formerly attributed by astrologers to the influence of the heavenly bodies." Immediately I began to reverse the error that I could be influenced by anything but good. Our Leader writes (Science and Health, p. 470), "Man is the expression of God's being," and I declared, "As 'the expression of God's being,' I am purely spiritual, not material, and I can be governed only by Spirit, God."
