I am very grateful for God's great goodness "to the children of men" in sending Christ Jesus and later Mary Baker Eddy to help and guide us in the upward way out of matter into the realities of being.
In 1911, when my mother's family of five children were small, she was reading a popular book of the time and was aroused by the thought that, as a mother with a large family, she wished she could be as interested in the Bible as she was in the novel. A short time afterwards, when visiting a brother, she found some copies of the Christian Science Sentinel and asked if she might take them home. He said that the children had found them in an apartment of his which had recently been vacated. When Mother read these Sentinels, she knew that Christian Science was what she wanted, and she asked my father to buy her a copy of the oft-mentioned textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. Although they both were of the Mormon faith, my mother at once accepted the teachings of Christian Science, and we children were placed in the Christian Science Sunday School.
We had many healings in our home. It helped me through school and later helped me to hold several positions, each better than the previous one. I am especially grateful for the Reading Rooms, where I spent a portion of my lunch hour each day. Sometimes I went there to work out a specific problem and at other times more because it seemed the right thing to do. I am grateful for the guidance received there because it kept me on the straight and narrow path. I joined a branch church soon after reaching the age of eighteen years and greatly appreciate the early experience of church membership and also class instruction.
