All of good the past hath had
Remains to make our own time glad.
These words of Hymn No. 238 in the Christian Science Hymnal impel me to set down a few of the manifold blessings that have come to our family through the study and application of Christian Science. These experiences of the manifestation of good remain to make my present time glad whenever I am in need of faith and inspiration, and it is with the hope that they will help to make glad times for those who read of them that I submit this testimony.
When one of my brothers was quite young he was afflicted with tubercular hip disease. X-ray pictures showed that the bone had been eaten away for several inches, making one leg shorter than the other. He was put to bed with the prediction by the family doctor that he would probably never walk normally again, if he walked at all. An aunt in a distant city who was studying Christian Science prevailed upon my parents to have a practitioner in that city give the boy treatments. The doctor was released from the case, and my brother was allowed to be up and about with the rest of us. My parents immediately took up the study of Science, and soon the thoughts of all of us were lifted so far above the contemplation of matter that it was some time before we realized that the healing had taken place and the leg was entirely normal. It has remained so ever since.
