Although as a girl I had attended a Christian Science Sunday School, following my marriage I left Science. After years of trouble and illness I found my way back. I shall never forget the first night of my return to a Church of Christ, Scientist It was a Wednesday evening testimony meeting, and although I had felt almost too ill to attend, by the time the service was over, I was like a new person. The words "God is love," inscribed over the Readers' platform, carried me back to my childhood trust in God and opened a whole new life for me in the present.
From that night on, one blessing has followed another, and now words are inadequate to express my gratitude. Some of the healings we have had in our family have been those of arthritis, anemia, chronic constipation, extreme nervousness, mental depression, influenza, earaches, broken bones, and other conditions. Lack has also been overcome.
One of the healings was outstanding. Our daughter had been playing ball in the street, and when the ball rolled into the sewer, the children tried to retrieve it. Four of the children lifted the heavy cast-iron cover, estimated to weigh about two hundred and fifty pounds, and our child slid under it to get the ball. As she was getting out, the children, thinking she was free of the cover, all dropped it at once, and the edge fell on her foot. By the time I arrived on the scene, a crowd had gathered. I heard all sorts of dire predictions being voiced that she would never be able to walk on that foot again. As I sat down by her on the curb, she said: "I looked at it, but I tried not to see it. Please get me away from here, Mother."
