Because I have received good so freely from the study and application of Christian Science I desire to give encouragement to my fellow men by witnessing that the truth has power to heal whether one understands it or not. This was proved in my experience.
I did not become interested in Christian Science with any thought of receiving physical healing, but because I was searching and longing for a satisfying explanation of God, which I hoped would give me the mental peace I seemed to lack. I had all one could desire from a material standpoint, and yet was dissatisfied and ungrateful. Everything* seemed so distorted to me that I was willing to investigate anything that promised to erase the ugly mental pictures I had before me. My husband and I started to attend the Christian Science church services and lectures and to read the authorized literature, including the textbook, Science and Health.
We attended the services regularly for six months while apparently we understood nothing of what was being read or testified to; but the solos and hymns seemed filled with love and comfort and we said we went merely to hear those. Our desire to learn about God was sincere, and so during those six months the truth that we heard and were reading was healing us, without our knowing it, of self-will and pride of intellect. When we decided to take our stand for Christian Science whether we understood it or not, and sought the aid of a practitioner for physical healing, we were then ready to be humble and obedient enough to start the study of Christian Science in an orderly way. We had learned by this time that we must be childlike and willing to sacrifice all the questions we wanted answered in regard to the religious teachings of Christian Science which we had felt certain we could not accept, and leave the unfoldment of the answers to God.
