Christian Science first came to my attention when as a young woman I was employed in a large city, but I did not take up its study at that time.
Later, my mother, a practical nurse, became interested in Christian Science through one of her patients. With my consent, she asked a practitioner to help my second son, who was then a few months old. When he was instantaneously healed of bowel trouble and of a skin disease, I made an effort to read the textbook by Mrs. Eddy, but I could not understand it.
When the same boy was eighteen months old, he accidentally swallowed a preparation which is considered poisonous. A physician was called, but there did not seem to be much that he could do. He left some medicine which was to be given to the child to quiet him, but by afternoon of the following day his condition was so much worse that there seemed little hope of his survival. It was then that the thought came to me as clearly as though someone had spoken to me that my mother and Christian Science could save my baby.
