From earliest childhood one of my great desires was to be very devout, and because I did not attain this goal, I was often very sad. Later on, even though I was enjoying a happy and harmonious married life, I often suffered from a sense of depression, which my husband used to describe as the earth weight.
However, my prayers did not go unheard. In 1919 a friend who had been healed of a serious abdominal trouble told me about Christian Science. When I told my husband, he said at once: "Look into it. That is what I was seeking all through the war." We procured the textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and joyfully read aloud the passages which confirmed and explained what we had felt. And very soon we experienced our first healings.
A gland suddenly became very swollen on the neck of our younger son, then eight years old. When I was his age I had undergone three operations for a similar trouble, and for two years of my childhood I had suffered considerably. I wanted to spare my son a similar experience; so I asked for the help of a Christian Science practitioner. When I called her again the next day and told her there was no change in the condition, she laughed and said: "Of course! Because you keep looking at error." She told me to talk to the child and tell him that God is his Father-Mother and that God is Love. She also asked me to read the ninety-first Psalm to him. I obeyed, and that night when I put him to bed I saw that he was healed.
