In the year 1897, Mrs. Eddy invited her followers to visit her at Pleasant View on Independence Day. ... Among those who took the journey was a mother, accompanied by her two children.
When they were about to start from their home in the Middle West, it was discovered that the small daughter, seven years old, had a very sore spot which protruded from the head and was very much inflamed. . . . Although the mother tried to meet the condition through prayerful mental work, yet in the morning, when they were to go out to Pleasant View, the swelling had enlarged until it stood out from her head and was more inflamed than ever....
After the speaking was over at Pleasant View, Mrs. Eddy sat upon the porch and greeted the people as they passed through the porte-cochere. The mother was preceded in the line by her children. When these two little ones, a boy of nine and the girl of seven, arrived in front of Mrs. Eddy, they stopped the whole procession and stood looking up into her face smiling joyously. Mrs. Eddy looked at them and then looked at the mother, and smiled back at the children, as someone told them to pass along. This is the mother's account of her illuminating experience:
