My mother, who had been left with three young children at the passing on of my father, was instantaneously healed through Christian Science of the need for wearing glasses, although the doctors had forecast dire results if she did not continue to wear them. This healing came in direct answer to her prayer to be shown if Christian Science was the right religion for her to turn to. From that time, she became a devout student of it, and many healings in our family resulted, including those of croup, tonsillitis, scarlet fever, and other so-called children's diseases, constipation, headaches, poisoning, and many other ailments of which we did not know the names. Lack was overcome numerous times when it had seemed there was not enough food for our daily needs. Turning with complete reliance to God as we learned to know Him through our study of Science, we found that our needs were always supplied in ways that seemed many times no less than miraculous.
Early in my teens, I manifested a nervous condition which was accompanied by great irritability. Suddenly my whole right side became useless, and my speech was greatly impaired. I was brought home from school in this condition, being unable to walk. A Christian Science practitioner was called, and she asked that I be brought to her house. Going to her entailed travel by bus and some walking, but Mother promised that she would bring me. She was able to do so the next day.
While we were there, the practitioner told us of many wonderful healings and explained very clearly the perfection of man, made in God's likeness, and the mist of material thinking out of which a belief in mortal man arose (see the first and second chapters of Genesis). In a few moments I went to her piano and played, something I had not been able to do in months. Before the week was out, the healing was complete.
