In her book, Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, Mary Baker Eddy wrote the following: “The leading self-evident proposition of Christian Science is: good being real, evil, good’s opposite, is unreal. This truism needs only to be tested scientifically to be found true, and adapted to destroy the appearance of evil to an extent beyond the power of any doctrine previously entertained” (p. 46).
A significant healing in which our family had an opportunity to test the spiritual fact that only good is real occurred one day when my four-year-old son and I were visiting my mother. While she and I were preparing lunch, out of the kitchen window we could see the child in the yard playing with his toys.
Before long, he came to the back door. When I opened it, I saw on his dear face not only a look of discomfort, but also a blue liquid, which indicated to me that he had gotten into something undesirable. It was ant poison.
