My parents were members of the Congregational Church and my early education having been one of love and reverence for holy living I united with the same church at the age of twelve and can never remember a time when the earnest purpose to settle every question on the side of right was not present with me.
As time moved on I found my health failing amidst increasing responsibilities in life. It seemed more and more difficult to harmonize Jesus' teachings with the demands of materia medica, and nearly seventeen years ago I found myself a physical wreck and heartsick over the perpetual thought of self that the most advanced systems of medicine and hygiene constantly imposed.
Physicians at home and abroad had failed to give a clear diagnosis of my case, but I had struggled on in an unsuccessful effort to re-establish my health, until I was in despair, and as a last resort was induced by a friend to turn to Christian Science.
