God is Love. This thought, held to faithfully, proved to me that God does heal when we turn from all material remedies to the one and only power, God.
In a small town in the Midwest, when I had been studying Christian Science for only a short while, I became very ill. The statement, "God is Love," was my first defense. Then I repeated many passages from the Bible and Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I worked mentally through the rest of the afternoon, for I knew that the symptoms were those of a condition that the doctors had told me would be fatal if it should ever recur. Therefore the only thing I could do was to depend entirely upon God as the only power. I finished preparing the evening meal and was informed by all the family that they would be out for the evening. How thankful I was to be left alone with God!
I retired, taking with me my Bible and Science books and some Christian Science literature. By that time the pain in my lungs and head was severe, and my entire body ached. I read the Lesson-Sermon from the Christian Science Quarterly and various articles, repeated familiar passages from the textbook, and prayed earnestly, clinging all the time to the thought of God as Love. Error's suggestion that there were various home remedies in the medicine chest was replaced with the realization that God, divine Love, is ever present. I thought of the story of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. After he had resisted the lies of Satan, the Bible records, the devil left him and "angels came and ministered unto him" (Matt. 4:11). The angel thought then came to me that I had done all I knew how to do and I could leave the rest confidently to God. At that moment I went to sleep, and at daylight the next morning I opened my eyes to wonder why all the pillows were around me. Then I realized that I had been healed of a severe attack of pneumonia. I was free from all pain and arose at the customary hour to attend church. No one in the family had even been aware of the illness.
