My earliest memories are connected with Christian Science and its healing power. I am grateful that even before I could read the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly for myself, my parents used to read it aloud in our home, and this daily study, continued, has been the most helpful influence in my life.
When thirteen years old I was sent home from boarding school with mumps. In that loving home where Christian Science was demonstrated, fear was instantly dispelled, and in two days not a vestige of the disease remained. I contracted several other so-called contagious diseases during my school days, but work was taken up each time in Science, and my case was invariably a slight one and the last of its kind to occur at that season in the school.
While riding one day, I fell upon my elbow and broke the arm. My parents and I turned to Christian Science alone for help, and in a few days I was able to use the arm as before. Later I was healed twice of what might have been diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning. In one case I felt that death was at hand, and I worked vigorously for Life, declaring that I worshiped and acknowledged one God, Life, not death. I had asked a member of my family to help me, and on each occasion I was entirely free by the next day.
