Jesus said, "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." I am very grateful that this kingdom of Life, Truth, and Love and the understanding of Christian Science came to me twenty-six years ago, when to mortal sense my days were numbered. The doctors were helpless, and said I could live but a short time. I had always been subject to severe attacks of sickness, and had undergone two major operations.
I always wanted to believe in a God of love, who did not send all this affliction upon me, but this did not coincide with the doctrine of the church with which I was affiliated. When the practitioner came to my bedside and said, "God did not do this," I asked her to tell me of that God. Oh, the joy to think I had found the God I had always wanted to believe in, and to know that I was created spiritually perfect! I knew that when I began to think of harmony and love, and to forget the body, health would come.
My healing at that time was marvelous. The dificulties were consumption, gallstones and stone in the bladder, kidney trouble, chronic constipation, and stomach disorder. Three weeks later one of the doctors who had been on my case was called in to see a person living in the flat below me. I was busy doing my work and singing. When he heard this, he asked, "When did Mrs. Whitehill pass on?" When he was informed that I had not passed on, but was the one working above, he was amazed and said: "Impossible! Why, she could not live." When assured that I was alive, he wanted to know if I had tried Christian Science.
