It is with great humility that I offer this testimony that Christian Science, correctly and faithfully applied, does heal. This Science was first brought to my attention about twenty-three years ago when a friend loaned me the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. During the few months I had it in my possession I would read a few pages, lay it aside, and then spasmodically turn to it again. Finally I returned the book to my friend, making no comment other than to thank her for the loan of it.
About a year afterward our son, who was at the time two years old, began having attacks of what the doctors call asthmatic bronchitis. These attacks grew more severe with each recurrence, and he became allergic to certain foods and weather conditions, as well as to some animals. One day I was alone with the boy when he had a very severe attack. His breathing made a rasping sound, and he complained of an earache. He became semiconscious, and I was very much alarmed.
Some painters were working on the house next door, and with their help I was able to get the boy into the car. Then I drove with him to a doctor's office. When I arrived there I found the office crowded, but when the doctor came to the door he noticed the boy's condition, and I was admitted immediately. He placed him on an examining table and looked into the ear. Saying nothing to me, he stepped to a telephone, and I heard him ask for another doctor, whom I knew to be an ear specialist. He described the condition of the ear and made arrangements for the boy's admittance to a hospital at once, saying that an immediate operation would be necessary, as the boy's life was in danger.
