My parents began the study of Christian Science when I was a child, and we experienced many beautiful healings. My mother was wonderfully saved from being electrocuted when, with a wet cloth in her hand and standing on wet ground, she put her hand around a wire clothesline which, unknown to her, was in contact with an electric wire. She had studied the Lesson-Sermon from the Quarterly a short time earlier, and now, when humanly she could not free herself from the line, she stopped struggling and turned wholeheartedly to God and to the truths that now came to her thought from what she had read. Immediately her hand opened, and she was free.
My husband began the study of Christian Science when we were married, and I am sincerely grateful that he is now an active member of The Mother Church and of a branch church. Our three children were born at home with the prayerful help of a Christian Science practitioner. The births were harmonious. Although a doctor was in attendance, no medicine was given, nor was there any recuperative period.
Many citations from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy were of great help to me at this time, including the following from Romans (8:2): "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death" and from Science and Health (p. 62), "The divine Mind, which forms the bud and blossom, will care for the human body, even as it clothes the lily; but let no mortal interfere with God's government by thrusting in the laws of erring, human concepts."
