I've always had this priceless Science of Christ to turn to. When I was a child, my mother was healed of migraine headaches, and my father was healed of heart trouble. My mother remained a faithful student of this Science until her passing, long after it was thought that she would not live a full life. We children were taught by Mother to look to God as our true Father-Mother and never doubt that He would supply us with all we needed.

Mother, two sisters, two cousins, an aunt, and I became charter members of a branch Church of Christ, Scientist. In the beginning, business meetings were held in our home, and the first officers were elected there. So we were convinced that we were indeed pillars of that church! And I suppose everyone who was a charter member felt the same.

A wonderful healing occurred about two months after I had Christian Science class instruction. By then I had married, and my little daughter, who was around seven, became very ill with an apparent respiratory problem. I knew that class instruction had given me the tools to handle the situation. But as I felt the need for help in meeting the case quickly, I called a practitioner, who prayed for the child.

One night, when I was still quite fearful, I picked up Science and Health by our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and turned to the Tenets of Christian Science on page 497. The first one is: "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." After reading this I paused and asked myself if I really did "take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." Without hesitation I assented that I did.

Then I proceeded to the next tenet, which states: "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness." When I came to the last part of this tenet—"and man in God's image and likeness"—I asked myself if I really did acknowledge man as the image and likeness of God. My answer was firm and sure, "Oh, yes!" These questions quickly followed: "Then, why are you so frightened for your child? If she is truly God's image and likeness—and she is—what are you afraid of? Do you really acknowledge 'man in God's image and likeness'?" The answer was an unequivocal "Yes!"

With that I felt free from fear and confident of God's healing power. I turned out the light and had a good night's sleep—my first in three or four nights. The next morning a happy, smiling little girl woke me. My daughter was completely free, and there was no period of convalescence. This healing has stood out to me as proof of what Mrs. Eddy tells us on page 412 of Science and Health: "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science."

(Mrs.) Jane S. Eliza
Chicago, Illinois