Just before the birth of our first child, Christian Science was introduced to me through the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The book was left at our home by a neighbor, who assured me that I would receive help merely from reading it. I most unkindly informed her that I did not believe in Christian Science and did not wish to read the book. Then one day I became quite curious and began reading selections at random, but they seemed ridiculous because I did not understand them. The book was called for and the incident forgotten.
When our little girl was six years of age, she came home from an orthodox Sunday school and asked me, "What is God?" I had always attended Sunday school and church but could not give her an intelligent answer. Then it came quite clearly to me, "God is Love." I knew that there was such a statement in the Bible, and suddenly I realized I also had read it in the Christian Science textbook which my neighbor had given me six years before. I told the child that God is Love, and she went around singing it for days. This simple statement so satisfied her that I, too, began thinking about it.
The next Sunday we entered the little girl in a Christian Science Sunday School. At that time she was taking a cod-liver oil preparation, but after coming home from the Christian Science Sunday School she refused to take it. She was asked if she had been told not to take medicine, and her answer was, "No, we did not talk about medicine; we talked about God. and He will take care of me." The medicine was destroyed, and she has never taken any kind of material remedy since. The next Sunday she made her own choice, asking to go again to the Christian Science Sunday School. The same Sunday my husband and I started to attend church.
