Severe attacks of gallbladder trouble became alarmingly frequent in my experience. One Sunday morning soon after my husband had left for a nearby city for the day, I became very ill. I felt impelled to call two friends. They came immediately. One stayed with me while the other went to church to fulfill his duty as Sunday School teacher. After the service of our branch church was over, I asked that another friend, who was at that time serving as Second Reader, be called. She came immediately and at my request put in a longdistance call to a Christian Science practitioner and asked for treatment for me.
In deep, earnest prayer I endeavored to surrender completely to the very best of my understanding all human will; and I prayed to see God, divine Love, as the only Life.
The aggressive mental suggestion kept coming that it was useless to fight, since the error was so overwhelming I could not meet it. Soon after my husband's arrival later in the day I seemed to be on the verge of losing consciousness. But I clung steadfastly to God. Many angel messages from the Bible and from Mrs. Eddy's works poured into my consciousness even during the time that all human response seemed absent. At this point I was conscious only of God as Life, and I knew that as His spiritual reflection I was entirely separate from any belief of a material body.
