From childhood I had been afflicted with tuberculosis of the lungs and had spent most of my time in a sanatorium. By the time I had reached womanhood, the disease had spread to the bowels. My fear had become so great that I became mentally ill, and this was followed by a bad heart condition. The doctors said they could do no more for me.
I received a letter from a friend who had been healed of the same disease through Christian Science. This gave me faith and courage that something could be done for me. With renewed hope, I turned to Christian Science for healing.
When a hemorrhage appeared, I found comfort in the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 376): "The pallid invalid, whom you declare to be wasting away with consumption of the blood, should be told that blood never gave life and can never take it away,—that Life is Spirit, and that there is more life and immortality in one good motive and act, than in all the blood which ever flowed through mortal veins and simulated a corporeal sense of life."
