One of my greatest blessings is that I have never known any other religion than Christian Science.
As I look back on my childhood, I recall one incident when a sister and I were grinding meat in a grinder. As she was putting in the meat, her thumb caught in the grinder and was cut through the bone. My mother immediately set it in place and wrapped a cloth around it. She then insisted that we sit and listen to those of Mrs. Eddy's poems which are set to music as hymns. Within a short time the pain subsided, and in less than two weeks my sister played in a piano recital. No evidence of the accident is present today.
As a young woman I had a severe burn which disfigured my face. I had just lifted a large pot of boiling dye from the fire, and when removing it I caught my foot on a rocker of a chair. I fell, spilling the dye over my head. At the time a physician was in the home treating a relative who was not a Christian Scientist. He took one look at me and said, "I will be glad to help her, but she will be blind for life, and her face will be disfigured and scarred."
