I have been the recipient of such manifest blessings through my understanding of God, as shown me in the teachings of Christian Science, that I have often felt guilty for not doing my share of work through our periodicals. There can be no excuse in the light of right for not doing more and better. I came into Christian Science for the religion. We had a large family of children, and the burden of their future weighed upon me when they were very young. We were living on the Sioux Indian reservation at this time (1885), and as my outside duties were necessarily limited, I had much time for serious thought, and did strive to be a Christian without the aid of the church.
We were as faithful to our sense of right then as we have been since coming into Christian Science, and sought each morning and evening, by reading and prayer, God's help and comfort.
At some time during this period I read of Christian Science, and particularly of Science and Health, in a magazine. I was so taken with the word health that I thought I must have the book, as health was my special boast. I prided myself on its possession, and our children were fine specimens, all due, I believed, to little pills, which I trusted then as I do God now.
