When I try to tell what Christian Science has done for me,...

Excelsa O. De Villaverde

When I try to tell what Christian Science has done for me, I can't find words.

At one time I suddenly became paralyzed, unable to move, not knowing what was going on around me. As I have some relatives who are not Christian Scientists, a doctor was called. He said that I would not recuperate, that my life was hanging by a thread, that I would never walk again. I clung to the fact that my true being was perfect and harmonious. With the treatment which a Christian Science practitioner gave me the symptoms of illness disappeared. When I got up, the relatives brought me a cane, but I rejected it immediately. I knew that I was the child of God and that I couldn't be sick. God is All-in-all.

I went out, walking perfectly and singing the hymn, which includes these words (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 139):

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