Christian Science was introduced into our home when I was very young, and since that period I have seen healings in the family of so-called children's ailments, influenza, broken bones, sciatica, asthma, and many other conditions. Financial limitations have also been overcome. But it is of my own healings of asthma and bronchitis which I should like to write in particular. I had an asthmatic condition when I was born, and many times throughout my babyhood and early childhood it was feared that I could not survive. After Christian Science came into our home I was greatly helped by the love and prayers of a practitioner, but the healing was not complete. One night, during the worst attack I had experienced, my father took a very firm stand.
Remembering that after instructing the student on the need for silent mental argument as to the unreality of discord and the presence of harmony, Mrs. Eddy states on page 412 of Science and Health, "If the case is that of a young child or an infant, it needs to be met mainly through the parent's thought, silently or audibly on the aforesaid basis of Christian Science," my father recommended that my mother ask the practitioner to help her because of the fear she was feeling; this my mother did. My father and I then repeated together "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468) with special emphasis on the word "is" in this part of it, for example, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." I fell asleep and awoke the next morning healed. There has been no return of the complaint since that time, over thirty years ago.
More recently a severe attack of what I believe was bronchitis was healed quickly. On waking one morning I felt very ill and was unable to breathe freely. Strongly affirming the right that men have to good alone as "heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ" (Rom.8:17), I managed to get to the office but found it difficult to maintain a degree of right thinking. As time went by I became worse until I felt on the verge of collapse. I mentioned to a fellow employee that I would have to go home. He agreed that I should do so at once.
