Not to leave unsung one psalm of gratitude, I wish to briefly indicate some of the manifold blessings that have come into my human experience through the study of Christian Science. I was led to investigate its teachings in my search for a more satisfying basis of thinking than the teachings of a religious orthodoxy or the various theories and philosophies I had studied.
My reading of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy began on January 1, 1911, in a small town where I was teaching. School was recessed for the holidays, and a blizzard raged outdoors. I read the book through that week, testing it by the Bible, especially all references about eyes, for I said, "If this thing works, it's going to work right now." I soon found that I could read the Bible and Science and Health without glasses, but nothing else without them.
Soon after school reopened, the glasses were broken. I wanted to do without them, but was fearful of trying it in public, so I had new lenses made. Within a week they were broken into bits. Then I did take my stand for Truth, and with some treatments by my mother, the difficulty was corrected. The prescription was not refilled. Thirty-Seven years of classroom work with all it entails were completed without resorting to material aid for vision, for which I am deeply grateful.
