From early boyhood well into adult life I suffered from chronic attacks of asthma. They began before I was a teenager, coming in the middle of the night. When this happened I did not wish to disturb anyone in my family, so I would study the copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy that my parents had given me and think about what I had been learning as a pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School. Relief would come and I would fall asleep.
During the years I experienced these attacks, it never occurred to me to look to anything but God for healing. My parents had come into Christian Science with very little faith in material remedies, and our family had had many fine healings. It was just natural for me to turn to the spiritual truths of this teaching.
My parents supported me faithfully through prayer. And from time to time I had the prayerful help of a Christian Science practitioner. I clearly remember my parents' calling my attention to Christ Jesus' words (John 6:63) "It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." They did this to help me see that in my approach to healing, I needed to be dealing with a change in thinking, not with physicality.
