Over a year ago I was taken suddenly ill. I had high fever and severe pains in the breast, and suffered from shortness of breath. Early one morning, after a very uneasy night, my husband called in a physician, who diagnosed the difficulty as inflammation of the lungs. He prescribed various medicines, which I took according to directions. But in the evening the pains were so severe and my general state of health so bad that I was greatly alarmed, the more so as my mother had passed away a few years previously with the same complaint.
Some time before, I had heard of Christian Science. Now, when I was suffering so severely and could experience no relief in spite of the medicines I had taken, I suddenly remembered the wonderful healings of which I had heard. My husband asked me if I were willing to have Christian Science treatment. Upon my 'consent, he went at once to a Christian Science practitioner, who soon reassured him with statements of Truth, and showed him that the belief of disease from which I was suffering was not real, because sickness did not come from God, and formed no part of creation. With a relieved heart he returned home, where he found me somewhat calmer.
During the night the pains commenced again; but instead of fostering them, we followed the good advice of our practitioner with perfect confidence, and my husband read from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, especially in the chapter entitled "Christian Science Practice." Through this reading we gained a better understanding of Truth, our faith in God's omnipotence and goodness grew stronger, and we were soon able to note the disappearance of physical sickness. My condition improved so rapidly that in four days I was able to take up my daily duties again.
