Over fifty years ago my parents became interested in Christian Science. My mother was quickly healed of a sciatic condition of the spine which had kept her in bed much of the time and which medical means had failed to help. After accepting Christian Science, my parents threw out all material remedies—some sixty-five packages and bottles of pills, syrups, patent medicines, powders, and lotions—and never again was any drug used in our family.
I am very grateful for having been reared in Christian Science. I have enjoyed excellent health through this preventive and curative Science. I was quickly healed of the effects of an accident, and the experience showed me the certain healing power of Christian Science. While employed in an ordnance plant during the Second World War, I was moving a vat of concentrated chromic acid, and some was splashed into my right eye. My first impulse was to get to a water faucet and wash my eye, but I knew I could not afford to admit even by this simple act that an accident or evil of any kind can befall God's man.
Although there were some twelve hundred employees in this plant, I was working alone at the time, so that no one else knew what had happened. The pain was intense, and I just had to sit on the floor where I was and declare the truth vigorously for myself for about thirty minutes before I was able to get to a telephone and call a practitioner for help.
