It is over thirty years since Christian Science came into my life and healed my baby daughter after several doctors, including a famous baby specialist, had failed to bring her health. She was so thin that strangers were shocked at seeing her. After six weeks of treatment by a Christian Science practitioner she was plump and rosy. Someone who knew me only by sight stopped me to say, "What have you done for your baby?" After that, for this child and her younger sister, Christian Science was both a preventive and an unfailing remedy throughout their childhood.
Two physical healings in my experience stand out. Ever since having an operation in childhood for appendicitis I had been troubled at intervals with pain from inside the scar of the operation. This was due, I believe, to adhesions. A year or two after beginning the study of Christian Science I had a rather sharp attack. I turned to Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy and read on page 393, "A false belief is both the tempter and the tempted, the sin and the sinner, the disease and its cause." In a flash I saw that, though I had been acknowledging false belief as the cause, yet I had not been thinking of the ailment as a false belief also. As I saw clearly that a falsity cannot produce a fact there was a distinct feeling internally of a pulling apart, and I have never again been troubled with the painful condition.
The other experience came some years later when a condition of internal poisoning developed after a miscarriage. There was considerable fever and much discomfort; so I requested the help of a practitioner. The next day I was using the Concordances to look up all that Mrs. Eddy has written on "purification" and related words. Suddenly a verse from Job which I had not thought of perhaps for years came to my thought as if spoken audibly (14:4), "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?" The illumination that came was so startling that I answered aloud, "Why, the spiritual idea is clean already." With that recognition there was an instantaneous healing of the physical difficulty.
