My joy is great for having had the firm foundation of training in the Christian Science Sunday School, although at the time I did not appreciate it as I should have. I drifted away from Science as I grew older, until my children came. Then I found medicine ineffectual in dealing with continual colds. I cast my "net on the right side" then, and the children and I were relieved of the tendency to take cold.
Even after this my reliance on God was halfhearted until the time when my third child was born and an infection appeared. The testimony of the material senses was frightening, but shortly after a Christian Science practitioner was called I felt a great peace and a calm assurance that all was well. In three days every evidence of the trouble had disappeared. I felt very close to God at that time, and this feeling of closeness has continued whenever I have turned to Him unreservedly. My gratitude to Him and to the practitioner through whose consecrated and loving work this healing and many others have been realized, was and is unbounded.
Progress in Christian Science has been steady ever since, although sometimes very slow, and has included membership in The Mother Church and in a branch church and class instruction. Each has proved itself a necessary staff for continued progress: membership in The Mother Church, bringing an understanding of oneness with a great Cause and of the universality of Truth; membership in a branch church, bringing the opportunity to be of service in many capacities; and class instruction, defining the way and lighting that way each year by annual association meetings.
