A MOTHER sat beside the bed on which lay her small daughter. The child had a high fever, and the illness seemed to be something very serious. Although the mother had been praying earnestly in Christian Science for many hours, the child's condition was apparently approaching a crisis.
The suggestion kept recurring to the mother: "I wonder how materia medica would diagnose this case; I wonder what the nature of this disease is." And, of course, accompanying this insistent suggestion was an element of fear. Suddenly through the gloom and discouragement which had seemed to surround them there came an angel message as distinct as though it had been spoken aloud: "Only God can diagnose!"
The mother pondered this message for a few moments. She had always associated the words diagnose and diagnosis with a physical examination, something quite unknown to God, whom she knew to be Spirit. Turning to a dictionary, among other meanings of the word diagnosis she found "scientific determination." In the light of Christian Science these two words lifted her concept of diagnosis completely out of the realm of the physical, away from the realm of conflicting human opinions into the realm of infinite divine Mind, which knows all, is all that knows, and includes all that is known.
