One Wednesday afternoon in April nine years ago, I was drawn to look into the window of a Christian Science Reading Room. It seemed to me at that time that I was as far down physically and mentally as it was possible to be. Three years before, all hope of a career had had to be abandoned because of ill-health, and a life of semi-invalidism had been mine since then. The following week I was to visit a specialist and felt instinctively that no help could come from that source to raise the weight of despair that had settled upon me. On that afternoon I decided that I would go to a Christian Science testimony meeting in the evening.
As I sat listening to the service, I realized that here was an unusual sense of peace. I listened to the testimonies, and the last one given roused me considerably. The speaker related what seemed to me a miraculous healing of curvature of the spine. The testimony was given with such conviction that I felt impelled to find out more about it. At the close of the service I sought out the speaker. She was a practitioner, and we made an appointment for, the following day. I went home that night with a hope and an expectancy of good that seemed almost too good to be true.
My initial visit to a practitioner's office proved a wonderful experience. I first asked, "Was what you related yesterday evening really true?" I was assured that it was perfectly true, and that harmony was the fact for me also and for all God's children. I began to tell of my past years of ill health and unhappiness, and when I had finished, the practitioner said that God had never seen one bit of all that seeming discord. She then began to tell me of my true heritage as His spiritual idea. When she had finished, I was able to glimpse the fact that if all God saw of me was good, in reality I must be well and could drop the burden I had been carrying.
