I shall always be grateful for my parents' fidelity to their newly...

I shall always be grateful for my parents' fidelity to their newly found religion when they moved from the Northwest to a small town in the southern part of the country where, I feel safe in saying, few if any of the residents had ever heard of Christian Science. But this did not deter my mother and father from continuing their interest in the study of Science. Their faithfulness resulted in a number of people becoming interested. Informal services were held, and my mother did some healing work in the community before moving to another location where she practiced many years.

During the early years of study, some of the healings in the family included two cases of typhoid fever in an acute stage, setting and healing of a broken bone, healing of blood poisoning and of bone disease in the hip, and elongation of the shortened limb, as well as other proofs of the efficacy of Christian Science.

My parents were sharing their home with my husband and me some years ago. My parents and I decided to read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy through in a month. One day as I was finishing my reading, I looked out of the window and saw boards and other big pieces of debris flying past. There had been no warning, and so it took us a few moments to realize that a tornado had struck. We closed windows and doors, all the while declaring God's ever-presence and that "there is no vapid fury of mortal mind—expressed in earthquake, wind, wave, lightning, fire, bestial ferocity—and this so-called mind is self-destroyed" (ibid., p. 293). Soon there was a calming of the wind, and the storm dissipated.

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