Christian Science has corrected discordant conditions many times in my experience. I am grateful not only for the healings themselves but also for the fact that each healing proves the power and presence of a loving Father-Mother God and that Life is eternal.
I had always loved Christian Science and had enjoyed attending Sunday School, though I had never fully accepted the power of Science to heal physical conditions through spiritual understanding. At a very trying time in my life I turned to Science, but more for consolation than with the expectation of healing. Therefore the following demonstration of the healing power of Truth was very important to me.
One hot summer day our young son fell down our front steps and landed on a cement walk, cutting a large gash in the back of his head. I raced to him and held him on my lap as I tried to calm him and stanch the bleeding. I was getting nowhere when suddenly the thought came to me: "How easy it is for the Christian Scientists! They just say 'perfect God and perfect man in His image and likeness.'" With that I was almost overcome with my irreverence in assuming that a crying baby with a bleeding wound could be the image of an infinite, peaceful, loving God, who is Spirit. Picking up the child, I went into the house, asserting the fact of God's perfection and gaining some sense of the child's actual perfect selfhood. I would not let myself examine the child's head again, having heard that Christian Scientists "never look back," and the child was happy and content.
