For many years I have received the rich blessing that Christian Science brings into one's life, so I am offering my testimony with the deepest of gratitude, hoping it will bless and heal others.
I shall never forget my first visit to a Christian Science Sunday School, when I was twelve years old. Up to that time I was neither well nor happy, and my understanding of God was so vague it gave me a very troubled feeling. I had one great desire, and that was to know how to pray. I fully believed my prayers would be answered if I knew how to pray. One thought gave me comfort, and that was that perhaps when I grew up I should know how to talk with God.
The first Christian Science Sunday School lesson satisfied that hunger by teaching me what God is. Never had I realized how close God, Love, is to me; but when it was explained that God is Father-Mother I felt I had found a treasure, because I had been deprived of a father's love and the many home comforts that would have come from its expression. With this new understanding I went home a different child. In all the years following I have had many opportunities to test that first new light that came to me as a child, and it has never wavered, but has grown stronger with the firmer assurance of God's might and power made manifest to me by demonstration.
