From my earliest recollection until the age of twenty I attended the Christian Science Sunday School, and Christian Science has been my only physician.
However, I was not awakened to the higher spiritual purpose of Christian Science until the passing on of my mother, when I realized my need for a change of thought from a material basis to the spiritual. Prior to this time, I had regarded Christian Science primarily as an all-purpose remedial agent, which eased my way in material sense, from which I saw little need of awakening.
My grief came at a time when I seemed to be on the verge of attaining human contentment and security. As I earnestly sought a reason for the experience, I learned that one can never find security or peace in matter. I grew more willing to deny the reality of material existence. Only then did I begin truly to desire the real, as revealed in Christian Science. My freedom from grief and loss was found in the fact that the true selfhood of all is immortal.
