My experience in Christian Science began as the result of interest awakened by a friend who had been a student for some time. I had not so much a feeling of need for healing as a desire to know more about God and my relation to Him. But, oh, how much there was—both physical and mental—that needed healing! There was a quick healing of antagonism to Christian Science and Mary Baker Eddy, and now there is only a deep love and reverence for her and for the priceless legacy she has left us for our instruction. Then there had been the experience of great financial loss, and this, together with a strong feeling of resentment, was overcome.
There was the healing of a nervous breakdown and fears attending it— fears of the past, fears of the present, fears of the future and what it might have in store for me. Mrs. Eddy says in one of her poems (Poems, p. 79) :
"False fears are foes—truth tatters those,
When understood."
