The healing of my mother in 1914 convinced me beyond doubt that Christian Science is the truth of being. Christ Jesus said (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." My mother was stricken with a very painful disease. All of us children were in school, so a neighbor helped her into the house and called a physician without consulting her. She then called me at school, since I was the eldest daughter then living at home. The physician pronounced the malady inflammatory and muscular rheumatism, and said there was nothing he could do for her. When I got home I called a Christian Science practitioner who agreed to pray for her.
Mother could not move, and I cared for her as I would have cared for a baby. She could take nourishment only through a straw and lost about sixty pounds during the weeks of illness. The practitioner gave passages from the Bible and from Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, for me to read to her, many of which she would repeat after me. I read to her hours a day from these books.
Finally, after about seven weeks, it looked as though she might pass on, but this was not to be. The practitioner came to our home between six and seven o'clock in the evening and was taken to my mother's room. All of us children went into an adjoining room. We remembered that Peter had "put them all forth" when he healed Tabitha (or Dorcas), and we felt it was important for the practitioner to be alone with the patient.
