For nearly sixty years I have experienced the blessing of Christian Science, which first came to our notice when a friend told my mother that he had found the truth that makes free and said that she also could have relief from the bondage under which she was suffering. The doctors, including her own brother, who was a surgeon, had said that her only hope was an operation, and her brother told her that even with an operation the chances that she would recover were only one in a thousand.
Thanks be to God. When my mother put her full reliance on Him, she not only received help and was able to bring up her family in Christian Science without resorting to any material means for healing, but also for years was able to help others in Science. She greatly assisted in spreading the Christ, Truth, that delivers mankind from the bondage of sin and disease and enables them to prove that man lives and moves and has his being in God, who made all things perfect and gave man dominion over all the earth.
When I was about fifteen years of age, the horse which I was riding at full gallop slipped on a wet bridge. I was thrown and landed on my head, sustaining what appeared to be a basal fracture of the skull. Passers-by picked me up and took me to my home. It was thought that I was dead, for I had no pulse or breath. My mother said: "He is all right. God is his Life. Leave us alone with God; I am not afraid."
