As a child my mother made friends with a little girl who later went to live in Western Australia. About the year 1916 this friend returned on a visit and in a long and earnest conversation told my mother that she had been healed through Christian Science of a severe case of consumption.
Two years later my mother suffered a severe nervous breakdown. She was under medical treatment for many months, with little improvement, and she then declared that she was going to try Christian Science. After a few treatments she recovered rapidly and was better than she had been for years. Her enthusiasm for Christian Science knew no bounds.
When I at last conquered my reluctance to investigate Science and went to the practitioner who had helped my mother, I knew that Christian Science was the truth, and I have known it ever since. Later, all the ailments that had bothered me were overcome one by one, the last to go being hay fever. I had been a very delicate child and until I took up the study of Christian Science had never gone through a whole year without being in bed with a sickness of some sort. But since then, more than thirty years ago, I have not spent even half a day in bed.
