Christian Science was brought to our farm home nearly forty years ago by a friend. My husband became interested in it at once, and before long I also took up the study.
I soon had demonstrations over minor ailments, and in our family of six I have seen scarlet fever, influenza, blood poisoning, measles, and other ills quickly overcome, some by our own work, others with the help of a practitioner. Later our elder daughter was healed of what I believe would have been diagnosed as some form of epilepsy. This was not a quick healing, as there was considerable fear to be overcome in our thought; but the attacks became less and less severe, and finally stopped altogether, and the healing has been permanent. This demonstration was brought about through treatments by a practitioner to whom I wrote and who lovingly took up work for us.
I have seen results of accidents healed. Our youngest boy, when about two years old, climbed up and over the wheel of a wagon, unseen by his father, who had gone into the house. On coming out, he did not notice the child, and picked up the reins and started for the barn. He was stopped by a scream, and found the boy caught between the wheel and one of the stakes that hold the wagon box in place. He was jammed in so tightly that my husband had to back the horses to release him. I came out of the house and found the boy in his father's arms, moaning. My husband took him upstairs and laid him on the bed, saying he would stay with him. I took my Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and went outside where I could not hear the moaning. It was not long before I realized clearly that Spirit, not matter, is substance and that Spirit cannot be crushed. Returning to the house, I found the boy sleeping and my husband doing some work in the yard. Presently the boy awoke, and when I went up, he jumped off the bed, saying, "My stomach does not hurt at all now." So I sent him out to tell his father and felt very grateful indeed for the prompt healing.
