Christian Science came into our home during my early childhood through the healing of my invalid mother, who had, in the words of the Bible (Mark 5:26), "suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse."
When the physicians told my father that her condition was incurable and that they had done all they could to relieve her, he asked for help from a Christian Science practitioner in a nearby city. Absent treatment was lovingly given, with the result that my mother's healing soon followed. She was one of the pioneer workers in the Christian Science movement for a period of thirty-five years following her healing. I shall never cease to be grateful to her for instilling in me a deep love for Christian Science and for our Leader, Mrs. Eddy.
My first healing came when I was ten years of age. I contracted malaria fever and malaria dropsy soon after my parents moved South. I was under Christian Science treatment, and my mother endured great persecution from those who felt that she was doing nothing to save my life. However, she had had too many proofs of this healing truth to think of turning to other methods of cure, and during the time this epidemic was raging she placed complete reliance on Christian Science, for "only through radical reliance on Truth can scientific healing power be realized" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 167). I was completely and permanently healed.
