Article December 19, 1914 Issue

Making a Demonstration

MAME C. BREYMAN

Young students of Christian Science, as well as friends who attend our meetings from time to time, often ask the question, "What do Christian Scientists mean when they say, 'I went to work and made my demonstration'?" Possibly an experience I had when I was a very young Scientist may help some such inquirer.

We had gone to a new place to live, and shortly after arriving there, some one told us that if newcomers ate much of a certain kind of fruit, they would be poisoned, and also be taken with a fever which was often difficult to overcome.

We had been in the place but a few months when our little son, then about five years old, did eat a good deal of the fruit one day, with the result that he was taken with terrible cramps and vomiting, and in a short time was in a high fever. I put him to bed, sat down beside him, and tried to realize that God was present, that in His presence is "fulness of joy." I tried to know that there was nothing to fear, and that if I said I believed in God's presence and power to heal, I must act as though I meant what I said. Then I turned to the Bible and read carefully the ninety-first psalm. Next, I read in Science and Health Mrs. Eddy's comments upon the Bible teaching and the Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation (p. 16), then "the scientific statement of being" (p. 468). During this time the child seemed to be suffering greatly, and the temptation would come to me to examine him and see if the fever was lessening, but each time I would say, "No, I can trust God to do the work, and I shall not take the evidence of the senses to see if He is doing it; I will know He is." I thus continued to read from our text-book different paragraphs which had helped me from time to time, and in about two hours the child was quiet and resting peacefully.

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