In 1920 I was in a large hospital in this city with an infection of a toe. A consultation of four physicians resulted in the decision that amputation was necessary. I would not consent to this and asked to be taken to my home, a request that was granted the next day. While the doctors were talking, this thought came to me: Go home and read that book '"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
Christian Science had been presented to me two years previously, and I had heard that one could be healed by reading Science and Health. The seed of Truth had been sown, and I reached out to God in my extremity. I borrowed Science and Health from a friend and fairly ate it up, reading night and day, with the result that I had a complete healing in five days, much to the amazement of the medical profession.
One of the first statements given to me by a practitioner was that God is ever present. The truth of this statement was proved in the protection of a small daughter about six years of age. One evening, while the child and I were walking with a friend, this friend asked her to post a letter across the street. As the child left the sidewalk to return to us she did not see a car approaching until she was off the curb and in the street. When she saw it she turned to go back to the sidewalk and fell full length to the ground.
