When I came to Christian Science, over eleven years ago, the purpose was to see if it would fill a seeming vacuum which nothing earthly could satisfy. Going into a class without any preparation or study, it sounded like a foreign language to me. But when, at the request of my teacher, I tried, and, after many hours of faithful study, succeeded in learning the Scientific Statement of Being (Science and Health, page 464), then Truth came as a revelation of light. It was the Truth. I was happy, and felt the joy of one who had searched for years for something and just found it.
All my thoughts of early childhood were associated with sickness and death, my mother having passed away with consumption when I was but seven, after an illness of many years, and a little brother and sister were also taken away.
I remember as a child, rushing by the parlor door at night, on my way to bed, as though some grim spectre were in there, waiting to snatch me away also. Thus were sown in my childish thought seeds of fear, which meant seeds of disease. This was not decreased, when my older brother, after a struggle of nine year with all the aid medicine and climate could afford, also passed away as my mother had. "Taking cold" was a nightmare to me, for the physician had said I must not do that, which he never told me how to prevent. This remained to be learned in Christian Science. How thankful I am to have been taught that which enabled me to prove that God is more to me than lungs; also that He is head above all, and thus be freed from the anxiety and worry which resulted in an almost constant headache. I long to see others freed from physical troubles, but above all is the wish that all might awake to the great fact that the blessed Truth as taught in Christian Science is the one and the only thing that will satisfy the craving of every human heart.
