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When Grant was seven years old he came home from school one night feeling very badly, in belief. His head ached and he was feverish and restless all night.

Little Grace (three years old next December) is a great help to those about her. One day she was bitten on the lip, by some insect, and it soon became badly swollen.

Five year old May had a belief of Diphtheria. After she grew better, her father asked her what she had been having? "Well, first," she said, "I had a toothache, then a sore throat, then I had Christian Science and got well.

I write to tell you of a demonstration of my little girl, five years old last spring. She is a dear little Scientist; has been with me through two classes, and has perfect faith in Science.

There is such a calling out through the pages of the Journal for the little child to lead to the perfect praise of the Father, that I am irresistibly drawn to add to the sweet note of praise welling up from the pure heart of innocence, until the light of Life shines out so clearly through their sayings. Before coming into the freedom of Christian Science I was of the strictest sect, an Hydropathist and Hygienist.

Through the children's department of the Journal, I believe, we were first awakened to the good work of children in Christian Science. We also learned, by the various reports, what a beautiful, natural light they are, when given their rightful place in our Sunday Schools.

A beautiful demonstration of Love's presence and power has just come to me, and I hasten to "bring the disciples word. " The letter enclosing receipt for our donation to the Children's Fund arrived, and enclosed was a direct word from our Mother.

" Let a man examine himself. " On starting out to war, the knight of old had his armor thoroughly examined, to see that there were no weak places where the weapon of the enemy could find an entrance.

Can a practicing Christian Scientist justly require of another, working in the same field, weeks of treatment, thought and effort to lift a member of her own family out of the claim of sickness or sin, which she herself has failed to accomplish, simply because she is a practicing Christian Scientist? Can she justly demand this as her right from the other (to whom she has never given aught of her own time and labor), on the grounds that doctors of Materia Medica do not charge each other for their services, when ill? Attention is called to this matter because such demands are made, and although cheerfully acceded to, the blessing does not follow . The treatments do not lift the error.

While sitting in a hotel, in northern New York, one evening in April, 1888, I overheard some gentlemen talking about Christian Science: and the fact that interested me most, was that it healed the sick without medicine. As I never left home, for any length of time, without carrying a small apothecary shop, I was the more in earnest to know how healing could be done without it.