As I was brought up in a home where the practice of Christian Science was the way of Life, and we have raised our two children through the application of this same inspired truth, I have often wondered how parents get along without the support and protection this precious religion provides.
When our first child was born in 1947, I was not able to find suitable nourishment to satisfy him. We were living temporarily in a country where there was still some food rationing after World War II. Although mother and child were well provided for, I must have accepted the general sense of limitation. At six weeks the infant weighed little more than at birth, and was very thin, almost emaciated.
In my concern I prayed for guidance, and was led to call someone living near us whom I had known briefly in Canada and who had recently become a Christian Science practitioner. In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy tells us (): "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science." I was asked to read Mrs. Eddy's poem "Love," two lines of which are (Poems, p.7):
