My first healing through Christian Science was that of measles and took place when I was a little girl. I remember that a practitioner came and sat quietly by my bedside when I was tossing and turning. She told me I was God's perfect child. I fell asleep while she was there; but when I awoke, all trace of measles had disappeared and I got up and played with my dolls quite unconscious of my parents' relief over my quick recovery.
The next demonstration I recall was the healing of an injury sustained when I was swimming in the Pacific Ocean and was hit by a surfboard. My nose was out of position; and I was grateful to be taken home by my Sunday School teacher, who was near me in the water and saw what had happened. He told my mother not to let me look in the mirror but to keep me in the house and read to me from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. He said that he would do prayerful work for me. Mother managed to look away from the material sense testimony and to assure me that man cannot reflect anything but perfection and that everything in God's world is forever in its right place. A couple of days later I returned to school without a sign of the accident.
After that we always turned to Christian Science whenever there was a problem, and I learned in Sunday School how to work and apply the truth myself. My teacher said he had learned that there was no investment he could make which paid as good dividends as the time invested in studying Christian Science. And because he was a good businessman, I was much impressed and decided to follow his example.
