From my early childhood I seem to have had faith in God, for my parents were earnest Christians, and trained me to honor and serve Him, but my heart often longed unspeakably for an answer to the many questions that presented themselves, and as I grew older and became a wife and mother the problems grew too; yet I felt sure that the light would come, and truly my soul waited upon God and asked Him to guide me into all Truth.
In my church membership of first one church and then another, I was sometimes helped, sometimes disappointed: then mental science was investigated, with its varied solutions and presentations of opinions and beliefs. At last, I heard of Christian Science through the dear friends who were the pioneers in this land; they lent me some Journals and Sentinels which impressed me very deeply. Then a copy of Science and Health was procured, and though interested, it was some months before a time came when I felt that I would lay aside all other literature, my Bible excepted, and study earnestly and quietly "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures."
Then the light began to come, in the dawning consciousness of God as Reality, and His creation as reflecting Him, and by degrees physical ailments to which I had been in bondage for many years faded out. Nervous prostration, severe headaches, and chronic trouble with the bowels passed away, while a long-standing claim of astigmatism, though not fully overcome, is considerably lessened. The errors of criticism, suspicion, and fault-finding are yielding before the sunshine of Love. My deep desire now is to have more of that Mind which was also in Christ Jesus.
