About the year 1910 Christian Science was recommended to my mother as a means of healing me of a large internal growth on the side of my neck. The efforts of three doctors in our town had failed to bring relief. They and a specialist prescribed an operation without delay.
At this point Christian Science was presented, and an appointment was made with a practitioner listed in the telephone book. The practitioner accepted the case and lovingly showed us how to study the weekly Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly. In a matter of ten days or so the healing was complete, and the condition has never returned.
A few years later, when my brother and I were in high school, he was stricken with polio. A relative who was visiting us and who had studied to be a doctor wished to be helpful but made it very difficult for my mother, who was determined to rely completely on Christian Science. However, my mother maintained, without wavering, her decision to do so, and no medical aid was given at any time. One afternoon the local doctor called to make certain that the state health code regarding possible contagion was being observed. Seeing my brother completely helpless, he said that the boy could not possibly live through the night.
