About ten years ago, to mortal sense I was seemingly about to pass on from the effects of influenza and pneumonia. Being the mother of two small children, one a baby of less than a year and the other aged six years, I was overcome with fear and hopelessness. As I appealed to our family physician to save me, saying the children needed me, I felt the hopelessness in his voice as he said, "Well, you know pneumonia is pretty hard on folks like you or me."
I had a very dear friend whose husband had been healed of an extreme nervous condition through Christian Science, and as the physician left our house this experience came to my thought, and the words "Christian Science" were spoken to me as by the "still small voice." When my husband entered the room a few moments later, I said to him, "I would like to try Christian Science." He asked me if I realized or knew what I was saying; that it would mean giving up the doctor, nurse, and material remedies and replacing them with a Christian Science practitioner, a Christian Science nurse, and obedience to Truth. I pondered for just a moment and said that I was willing to do this; whereupon a Christian Science practitioner was telephoned to. Upon the promise on my part of obedience, the work was taken up, and an instantaneous healing followed. We were so filled with gratitude at having had such a beautiful proof of the omnipotence of God and the power of Christian Science healing, that it was easy to rid our medicine cabinet of all material remedies and take an absolute stand for Truth. Since then we have turned to God, the great Physician, in every need; and never in vain.
While this healing was only the first step, we have had many beautiful healings and blessings since that time—physical, mental, financial, protective. Problems have been turned into opportunities for demonstrating good. On page 323 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, says: "Through the wholesome chastisements of Love, we are helped onward in the march towards righteousness, peace, and purity, which are the landmarks of Science. Beholding the infinite tasks of truth, we pause,— wait on God. Then we push onward, until boundless thought walks enraptured, and conception unconfined is winged to reach the divine glory."
