My life has been greatly blessed by Christian Science. I had studied this Science for only a few months when headaches, constipation, and the need for wearing glasses, as well as unhappiness, vanished. I had studied less than a year when the problem of employment needed to be solved. I applied what I had learned of Christian Science and was offered a teaching position in a fine school.
These proofs convinced me that Christian Science was founded on Truth, and I yearned to learn more about it. I studied the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, attended the Sunday and Wednesday evening services, and subscribed for and read the periodicals. I found that these channels, which our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, established under divine guidance, began to convey to my thought a higher and fuller concept of the true nature of God and man. This understanding helped me in my daily living; it aided me in human relationships; it enabled me to be more loving, gentle, and patient; it helped me immeasurably in teaching large groups of children.
When I had studied Christian Science for about three years, I wanted more than anything else to become a member of the church. There seemed to be a great obstacle to fulfilling this desire. One of my parents felt that Christian Science was a false teaching and told me that I could never return home if I joined the church. Fear of losing my home and even my position was very great. During the previous summer I had visited The Mother Church in Boston, Massachusetts. As I was leaving the Church auditorium, I saw on the wall the Bible quotation which reads in part (Matt. 10:37), "He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me." This verse kept coming to me. I asked the aid of a Christian Science practitioner. She helped me to impersonalize error and thus destroy the fear of it. I took my stand and was able to join a branch church and The Mother Church with my loved one's consent and to return home whenever I desired. My gratitude for this demonstration was and is very great. It has meant much to me to be a church member and to work in the church.
