Nearly sixteen years ago a neighbor made the statement that through Christian Science she had been relieved of the fear of taking cold when she realized that if God is everywhere there is no place for harmful winds. That way of acknowledging only one God was so reasonable to me that I wanted to know more of the teachings of this religion, and eagerly read copies of the Christian Science Sentinel and The Christian Science Monitor. A copy of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, was borrowed from the public library and read with the sincere desire to be led to know what is true. We have never since been without a copy of this book.
I needed to be free from great weakness, fear, discouragement, lack, and internal disorders which medicine seemed no longer to help; and as I tried to rely on simple truths which I could understand, I improved steadily. It was a long, hard struggle at first; but as I kept the textbook at hand and continually reaffirmed God's strength and presence, many proofs of the truth of the teachings were gained. Inactive bowels were healed through some realization of the fact that if God, Truth, is the only cause, He needs no aid to establish right action. The healing has remained permanent through all these years.
I am sincerely and humbly grateful for the loving help of practitioners through the many problems which had to be solved. Several forms of so-called children's diseases were overcome, with only slight symptoms of the ailments manifested, and whooping cough, mumps, and scarlet fever were confined to one only, though she was not isolated from the other child.
