My earliest right apprehension of God came when I first attended a Christian Science Sunday service over forty years ago. At this service I learned enough about God as Love and man as His image to banish forever the nightmare of fear and discouragement that had held me in bondage for several years. Later this experience enabled me to understand Mrs. Eddy's statement in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 390), "It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony."
Following this wonderful introduction with the study of our Leader's inspired book, Science and Health, I was greatly surprised that many physical ailments, including nervous indigestion, lumbago, headaches, and other distressing conditions, vanished and I became free and happy. This joyous freedom came in one reading of the book.
My wife, grateful for the beneficial effects of my interest in Christian Science, gladly took up the study, with the result that our children were freed from our false sense of fear, anxiety, and responsibility for their health and well-being. One son was healed of St. Vitus's dance, for which he had been medically treated for over a year with no apparent results. At the same time he laid aside the strong glasses he had been forced to wear. Croup, a dreaded and regular visitor every winter, made its reappearance one night, but was met and banished forever by our united declaration of "the scientific statement of being" (ibid., p. 468), which was the only treatment that we knew how to give.
