Some friends urged us to try Christian Science for a physical and nervous condition which doctors had not been able to cure. I was skeptical, but finally decided that it could not hurt me. All other means had failed and my suffering was indescribable. After reading just a little of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, I began to declare that it was the truth. It was such a revelation to me that I could not think of anything else. The next day I was up and able to do things for myself, much to the astonishment of nurse and friends. The extreme sense of weakness had disappeared overnight. The complete healing was not quick, for I had to be freed from much wrong thinking. Fear, self-righteousness, egotism, a false sense of responsibility, worry, resentment are still being replaced with the qualities of love, humility, honesty.
When I began attending church it was such a joy to me. It was some time before I was able to fulfill my part in the Wednesday testimony meetings. I would go with great desire to share my experience with others, but would sit in fear and trembling when the opportunity seemed to be mine to speak. One evening, during a meeting, the thought came to look in the Hymnal for help. I opened it and looked on this stanza:
"Sow in the morn thy seed,
At eve hold not thy hand;
To doubt and fear give thou no heed;
Broadcast it o'er the land."
