I Should like to submit this testimony as a token of obedience. I have come to hold this quality in high regard since receiving a healing which was manifestly due to the simple desire to be obedient.
For several months I had been having some difficulty with my hand. It might have been called neuritis, although I never knew exactly what it was. Then for a period of weeks the thought kept coming to me that I should apply for class instruction, that perhaps such a step was long overdue. I took the necessary steps, praying to be led to the right teacher. On the day that I received my notice that I had been accepted, the painful condition in my hand simply disappeared, without any special work being done for it. This made a deep impression on me, bringing me to see the importance of obedience, whereas for most of my life I had manifested the destructive trait of self-will.
I took up the study of Christian Science for healing because I was faced with having a minor operation, which I feared. But long before the healing came, I knew that I had found a religion in which I could really believe, one that was satisfyingly logical. For several years before beginning this study I had read all I could find on different religions and philosophies, thinking each time: "This is it. This seems really believable." But soon something contradictory or something illogical would come up, and then I would try another one. But almost from the first, Christian Science satisfied me completely. In fact, it satisfied me intellectually too completely, because I had a tendency to stop there. It was beautiful and logical, pure and satisfying. What more could one ask? I continued to read Science literature and to go to church, but this Science touched my living very lightly compared to the depth of its powers.
