Christian Science heals. This I have proven many times. When I was a small child, my mother would call long-distance on the telephone for help. In most instances it was absent treatment, as there was no Christian Science practitioner in our community. Again and again such healings proved the statement in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy (p. 179), "Science can heal the sick, who are absent from their healers, as well as those present, since space is no obstacle to Mind." Many childhood diseases were avoided or quickly healed.
When I was in first grade, I was protected by Truth from whooping cough, although my twin sister had it. It was in that experience too that I as a child helped someone else in Christian Science for the first time and proved, as it says in the textbook (p. 37), "It is possible,—yea, it is the duty and privilege of every child, man, and woman,—to follow in some degree the example of the Master by the demonstration of Truth and Life, of health and holiness."
One day my sister was very uncomfortable. She was lying down while I was playing nearby. I got the Bible and Science and Health and sat down on a chair beside her. I had of course not learned to read much, but I expectantly opened the two textbooks and repeated some of the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. Then I got up and said, "You are all right," and went back to play. As far as I was concerned, the case was closed. Mother and Dad heard what I said and felt the assurance that all was well. My sister stopped coughing and slept peacefully that night for the first time in many nights. That was the end of the whooping cough, for she was well in the morning.
