I should like to give thanks for a wonderful healing of sore throat and cold. The cold developed one Saturday evening, and as I had always suffered from colds I thought it was quite time I started to do some serious work about it. Being a business woman, I had usually asked a practitioner to help me and had not given much thought or work to it myself. After reading for some time, however, I had a very bad pain in my back and was feeling so ill I had to go to bed; and I did not rest much that night. In the morning I felt so ill I just managed to sit over the fire and continue my reading. I wanted to go to a lecture in the afternoon, and this I managed to do; but I was very miserable when I got home.
On the Tuesday morning I still had a very sore throat and could hardly swallow even milk; but I had an appointment which I felt I must keep, so got up and went out. It was such a lovely day I went on the top of the bus, but when I got up there it was so bitterly cold I thought that with such a bad cold I ought to have gone inside. I had to correct that thought instantly, and I realized at once what had been holding me back from my healing. I was afraid of cold and always had been! I was at once healed of that bad throat; and when I got to business, about an hour later, I was able to eat my luncheon as if I had never had any discordant condition.
On page 14 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy we find these words: "Become conscious for a single moment that Life and intelligence are purely spiritual,—neither in nor of matter,—and the body will then utter no complaints. If suffering from a belief in sickness, you will find yourself suddenly well." That was what occurred in my case. As soon as I realized that the cold winds could not hurt me, because man is spiritual, I was suddenly well.
