Truly may it be said, the darkest hour just precedes the dawn, for indeed, I had despaired of ever being healed of that so-called incurable disease, asthma.
My physician had prescribed a change of climate, and I had just returned from a three months' stay in Canada where I had expected to have my health entirely restored, but to my dismay I came home very little improved. Science and Health, p. 376, says, "Then is the time to cure them with Christian Science, and prove that they can be healthy in all climates, when their fear of climate is driven out." With my healing, came the joy and peace of God which passeth all understanding.
Only those who have had this foretaste of heaven can ever discern the grandeur of such Infinite Love. Still it was some months before I learned to demonstrate this Christ-healing. It was in the following August that I made my first perfect demonstration, which I will relate. I awoke one night with a severe cold—eyes and nose both streaming with water—and as our Reader was in Boston at the time, my feeling of helplessness was indescribable. Then the still, small voice whispered, Why not try to prove the power of Truth and Love for yourself? I began, and as I realized more fully than ever before the Omnipotence of God, the Omni-presence of Spirit, the supremacy of Mind over material sense, and that "Perfect love casteth out fear," I became very calm, and in a little more than an hour the belief was entirely destroyed and I slept soundly till morning.
