"I do not quite know, but there are Christian Science churches in London. If you were to write there perhaps someone would tell you. I wish I had a copy to lend you. I have written the Scientific Statement of Being from memory. I am sure it will help you. I am trying to realize it for you, and for the little girl. Think always of that first chapter of the Bible. In the beginning God created everything that was created, and it was very good. None of the things we want to get rid of could be included in God’s _very good_, could they? Jesus came to teach men to understand God better, and he said, ’that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.’ So all that came from God and all that still comes is spiritual. If you could quite realize this, Mr. Higgs, you would soon lose your rheumatism. I am only telling you what has been told me so many times; and I know it is true, because I was very ill when my cousin used to teach me, and I grew better as I began to understand. She helped me, because she saw me always as God’s perfect child, and knew that He had never created hip-disease, therefore it never was created; it belonged to the mist, and it would disappear under the light of Truth as hoar frost disappears when the sun shines upon it." "It is wonderful and strange what you are telling us, Master Carol, I’ve never heard the like before, but somehow I can’t doubt it. I call to mind what the Bible says, ’Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings God ordains strength.’ I’d dearly love the girl to be free from those dreadful fits. My rheumatiz is very bad, but I’m an old man, and can’t expect to ’scape one o’ the signs of old age." "But you must not expect. You must know that it is not a sign of old age in God’s man. You must always remember the man whom God created in His own image and likeness." "I’ve heard those words many times before, Master Carol, but somehow they never seemed to come home to me as you put it. Why, of course I ought not to suffer with rheumatiz if I _am_ God’s image and likeness. But what about all the poor dwarfed and stunted creatures that are crippled from infancy? There’s a little hunchback in the village. He was dropped when he was a baby, and his back grew crooked, so that it’s a hump now. How can he be God’s image and likeness?" "The hunchback is not the likeness of God, but the real child--the spiritual child is, and God sees His child as He created it." The boy put his hand over his eyes a moment, realizing that of himself he was not telling these simple-minded people anything. Then he said: