If I could ever record all I have received from the study and application of Christian Science I should indeed be grateful. It came to me many years ago when I had no religion whatsoever. I was brought up in a family belonging to the Jewish faith and that religion meant absolutely nothing to me. As the years passed by I longed to know a God to whom I could turn, for my life was a very troubled one, and although I was surrounded with every material luxury, I was intensely unhappy and dissatisfied with my lot.
When Christian Science was presented to me. my thought was so darkened that I could not seem to get a glimpse of the truth, and the textbook seemed a blank to me. I earnestly studied and tried to put into practice all I knew, which was very little. I had just the letter of Science without the spirit, and so the years went on. Then came a time when everything I held most dear was swept away—husband, home, friends —and I seemed to stand alone. Those so-called friends deserted me, and I underwent the experience to which our Leader refers (Science and Health, p. 266) when she answers the question, "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank?"
I went through intense loneliness, but gradually, with the loving help of practitioners and my own understanding, I surmounted all these testing times; and today I am a happier and healthier woman than I ever thought it was possible for me to be. I have not come out of all these experiences without much striving and without holding on to God, and man's inseparability from Him.
