I have been a student of Christian Science for about five years. Previous to the summer of 1931, I had not read a word of Christian Science or talked about it to anyone. I was much interested in the study of diets, foods, and physical health as known in medical science, having a brother who was a physician in a New York hospital, and one sister who had taken nurse's training and another who had studied laboratory technique.
September of 1931 found me with my three boys in a strange city, little food in the house, no money to pay the next month's rent, and my husband away from home ill and unable to work. He had been ill for two years, having had two major operations and been unable to work exactly three fourths of the time during that period. I had taken him to noted specialists and we had tried osteopathy, chiropractic treatments, and different kinds of diets and baths, all to no avail.
A friend recommended Christian Science, and I read Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy almost constantly for a week, trying to absorb what I could understand and leaving until later that which I could not readily grasp.
