When I was fifteen years old, I became converted at a revival meeting, and soon after joined the Presbyterian Church. A few months later, leaving the town in which I was then living, I moved to Kansas City and joined the First Congregational Church of that city. I went to church because I wanted to hear of God. I found much that was beautiful and good in working in the Christian Endeavor Society of that church, and for the good I received through those channels I am grateful.
Theosophy was investigated to a certain extent, but theosophy did not reveal a God who was Love. At the same time, I was reading some Christian Science Journals loaned me by a friend, and sometimes studying with her the lesson sermons, and at her earnest invitation I attended some of the meetings of the church. The sweet sense of love and harmony in those meetings attracted me at once, but I felt it my duty to remain in my old church. I however, refused to take any medicine, saying that if the Christian Scientists could keep well without medicine, I could also. I prayed to God, but at that time I had only a blind belief in Him, and this did not save me from temptation when the trial of my faith came.
Then conscience whipped and scourged, and trouble threatened our home, and I took the first decisive step and bought Science and Health. It was then the great Truth came to me in a moment of uplifting, "God is all-in-all." Soon after I took class instruction from one of our Leader' loyal students, joining in time the church of which she is First Reader, and also the Mother Church.
