Christian Science came to me nineteen years ago. I attended a Wednesday evening testimony meeting at The Mother Church with a friend, and shall never forget the peace and calmness that I experienced as I entered the auditorium. I was so impressed with the sublimity of it all that I never returned to my own church, but attended a branch Christian Science church the next Sunday and have been a member of it for many years.
Directly after my first visit to The Mother Church I procured a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, from the public library, and the first night read until three o'clock in the morning, during which time I was healed of a chronic condition of hay fever and catarrh for which I had tried many remedies and had had treatment from specialists. I realized afterward that the only words I remembered reading were from page 175: "What an abuse of natural beauty to say that a rose, the smile of God, can produce suffering! The joy of its presence, its beauty and fragrance, should uplift the thought, and dissuade any sense of fear or fever. It is profane to fancy that the perfume of clover and the breath of newmown hay can cause glandular inflammation, sneezing, and nasal pangs."
Since then I have had much joy from roses, goldenrod, and beds of clover. With this healing came the healing of the desire for anything but Christian Science, and it has been permanent. Previous to my healing I had not known that healings were accomplished simply by reading the textbook.
