In Jeremiah we read, "The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee." Looking back upon my first acquaintance with Christian Science, I realize that for some time I had been desiring to know God better. Although I did not know why, the sermons in the church I attended disturbed me greatly, so I finally stopped going. About a year later, Christian Science was presented to me as the religion of Christ Jesus, based on his teachings, and the explanation given me then of God as Love appealed strongly to me. It was simply a desire to attain peace of mind that caused me to begin the study of Christian Science.
Truly, I can say that I never dreamed of the great blessing Science would prove to be. I found God, and found too that He is an ever-present help in time of trouble, no matter what the trouble is. Through the study and application of Christian Science there has never been a time in the past twenty years when this Science has not met my every need, indeed, more abundantly than I could "ask or think"!
While a young student of Christian Science I was healed of grief at the passing on of my mother, and of the sense of being left alone in the world. I learned in a degree then the truth of the words of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 266): "Would existence without personal friends be to you a blank? Then the time will come when you will be solitary, left without sympathy; but this seeming vacuum is already filled with divine Love." I was beautifully sustained through this experience, and later at the passing on of an infant daughter. Since then, three children have been reared in Christian Science, and I do not know what I should have done without it. There has never been any temptation to give them medicine, and while there have been many difficulties, they have always been overcome quickly, sometimes with the aid of a practitioner and often through our own reliance on Truth.
