When I look back over the years that I have been a student of Christian Science, it is difficult to find adequate words to express my gratitude for the many blessings and convincing proofs of its healing power I have had.
I had not had much experience in practicing Christian Science when our baby son developed an eye disease. My husband was not at that time a student of Science. We were fearful and turned to the medical profession. Some years later we had a baby daughter, and the same disease appeared in one of her eyes. Then I understood that the belief of this disease had not been destroyed in my consciousness and that this was an opportunity to destroy it now through the healing power of Christian Science.
I asked my mother, who was a practitioner, for treatment for the baby. One day when the appearance of the baby's diseased eye was alarming and I was overcome by a great fear, I telephoned the practitioner. The calm, convincing words of truth she spoke allayed the fear a great deal. Thinking of the former experience with our little boy, I said, "I must have patience, because this can only be healed very slowly." At the other end of the line the practitioner said: "What has to be healed slowly? There is nothing to be healed. Your baby is perfect now!" A great calm came over me.
