About five years ago I was healed of chronic bronchitis through Christian Science. I had been the victim of this disease for about nine years. At first it was not alarming, but at every new exposure to the weather it would come back in increased form until I became discouraged in the use of cough medicines which were recommended to me by the doctors, but which afforded me no relief. I had studied Christian Science spasmodically and believed it to be the truth, but now as I grew worse, and my friends and my husband had practically given me up as incurable, I took up the study very earnestly. I went to a practitioner and to the Reading Room every day for many weeks, studying all of Mrs. Eddy's books and reading all the authorized literature. I never missed a Wednesday evening testimony meeting that I can remember, hoping that someone would tell of a healing of this disease and just how the work had been done to cause it to yield to Truth.
My greatest stumblingblock was self-pity. I would deny the need of pity in God's kingdom, where all is joy, hope, peace, strength, health, and protection; and I learned to know that when I gained the consciousness of this, I would have realized the kingdom of heaven within. In about a month's time these angel thoughts did come to me. Fear left, and I felt confident that all I had been told of Christian Science could be proved. I still coughed; but, with fear gone, I gained steadily in strength. Self-pity, however, still obscured my vision. I was constantly looking for sympathy from everybody. To cut myself off from this, I kept away from people as much as I could, using the Reading Room and studying earnestly. One day I awoke with a very painful throat; all day it troubled me, and I felt the old fear. By this time I had learned to be more loving; so I decided that I would not ask help of the practitioner, as I knew she kept that day for such patients as needed her immediate help. I did my mental work as we are taught in Christian Science; and that night, during a very severe coughing spell, I coughed up a piece of hard substance. I coughed no more that night, and in about two weeks was entirely healed of the cough and sore throat. One of my friends once said to me, "If I could see such a cough as yours healed by Christian Science, I would believe in it." If that friend could see me now, well and strong, she would know that Christian Science does heal disease.
I have had many other healings. A dislocated toe, an ulcerated tooth, hemorrhoids, lack, and so forth, all have been overcome through spiritual understanding.— West Palm Beach, Florida.
