I Have a growing desire to tell of the wonderful answer to the prayer of one who from childhood had been seeking to worship God "in spirit and in truth." In my home in the Scottish highlands, the Bible was the book from which we read daily. Thus I early learned to love the Scriptures and got much comfort from them. When trouble came, and it came frequently, I would say with Job, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," thinking that it was God's will, to prepare us for the hereafter. In the year 1913 we came to America. With disappointments and discouragement came homesickness for my native land and dear ones left behind, a homesickness so severe that it almost overwhelmed me. Our two little girls, who had been subject to severe colds since babyhood, were suffering from a severe form of asthma which the doctors said was caused by the change of climate. We consulted many doctors, but they all said that they could do nothing for the children except to give them temporary relief. They advised us to go to the mountains, to the seacoast, or back to Scotland, saying that in time they might outgrow the trouble.
It seemed as if I had come to an unsurmountable wall. I prayed earnestly that God would be our physician. Then one day a neighbor called on us, and when told about the children she said: "They do not have to be sick. Don't you know that there are people healing as Jesus healed when he was on this earth?" She then repeated the words, "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." In the twinkling of an eye my outlook on life changed, for this familiar quotation took on a new light. I literally felt a load roll off my shoulders. I knew that I had found that for which I had been yearning all my life. The homesickness was instantaneously healed, although I did not yet know who they were who healed as Christ Jesus had. I soon got in touch with a Christian Science practitioner, who lovingly helped us. The healing was slow, but the trouble lessened until a time came when it looked as if the healing were complete; and we were very grateful and happy.
Then a testing time came. The mental horizon became clouded. Fear seemed to hold me, while the children's trouble returned with more severity. At this point a loyal and loving Christian Scientist told me that the work was mine to do, and that I had enough understanding to do it. This counsel proved indeed to be a life line, because with the overcoming of fear in my consciousness the healing came.
