I wish to express gratitude for a healing I had of pneumonia. To the great amazement of my husband, who is an orthopedic surgeon, this healing was accomplished entirely through Christian Science "without so much as an aspirin tablet," as he expressed it.
During the critical period of the illness, great fear was expressed by my husband and by several dear and close friends in the medical profession. I was subjected to concerted efforts on their part to step down from the stand I had taken to be healed by the Christ, Truth, and take the drugs without which they felt sure I could not recover.
I was having Christian Science treatment and had not the slightest doubt or fear what the outcome would be. The hardest part of the whole experience was not the symptoms of the disease, although these were severe to human sense, but trying to make these dear ones understand that I could not step down from the standard of spiritual healing. I could not serve two masters. They could not seem to comprehend that for me to take a pill would be a renunciation of my faith in God. My greatest temptation was to succumb to sympathy for them in their fears—not the temptation to take the dings which they offered so beguilingly.
