Although I was brought up in Christian Science and attended the Sunday school from a very early age, I was tempted to drift during my high school days, and it seemed as if my attention was drawn to other things. When an extremely difficult situation arose, however, I was forced to acknowledge that nothing but Christian Science could help me, and I turned to it whole-heartedly. I had not given it much thought for a number of years; but now, in my extremity, I held to what I could recall of my early instruction in Christian Science, with the result that my need was beautifully met.
In gratitude for this demonstration of the efficacy of Christian Science I at once began to apply myself again to its study. In a few weeks I found that false appetites, including the desire to smoke, had left me; and I was able to get along without glasses, which I had needed for reading and writing. My gratitude is boundless for this proof that no matter how far we may seem to stray from the truth, once the seed has been planted it will sometime spring forth and yield abundantly.
In the years that have followed this awakening I have experienced many beautiful healings, of sickness, lack, and other inharmonies. Recently I had a healing which meant much to me. For quite a long time there had been a persistent, irritating pain in my back. I had been content with rather cursory denials of its existence, but had never really handled it thoroughly in Christian Science. Finally it became so severe that each morning upon arising I found I was so crippled that it took about half an hour to straighten myself up. I then took my stand, and after about an hour's persistent application of the truth as taught in Christian Science I was completely healed.
