During my girlhood I read much denominational doctrine, trying to find something that would satisfy my reason in my search for God. The search brought little light and nothing I could accept and use. The Bible was always a source of comfort, but much of it I did not understand.
In 1918 a sister-in-law sent me some Christian Science literature, and a year later she gave me the textbook, Science and Health, together with a Christian Science Quarterly. From that time I read the Lesson-Sermon regularly, and the Sentinel whenever I had a spare moment. It was a joy to learn that God's creation is in Mind, and therefore in the divine, eternal consciousness of being.
I became a member of The Mother Church in 1927. Many healings resulted from my study of Science as I obeyed the following admonition (Science and Health, p. 242): "In patient obedience to a patient God, let us labor to dissolve with the universal solvent of Love the adamant of error,—self-will, self-justification, and selflove,—which wars against spirituality and is the law of sin and death."
