In 1896, while I was spending the winter in Paris, Christian Science was first presented to my mother, and I wish to express gratitude for the loving thought of an aunt who sent Mother her first copy of Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy.
The second year after returning to the United States, my sister and I were sent to boarding school in Boston so that we might have the privilege of attending services in The Mother Church. It was at that time that we came to have the first gleams of this wonderful Christ, Truth.
My first demonstration as a young girl was the healing of cold sores, which had plagued my childhood. I knew little of Christian Science at that time, but I opened my Science and Health and found a reference which caused me to ponder on God as creator. This turning to the Christ-cure was sufficient to destroy utterly the belief in the sores. I can remember my amazement and gratitude when the sores completed disappeared that very day. I rejoiced over this simple healing, and from then on my faith began to grow and was adequate to meet many difficulties, until through accumulating proofs it became an enlightened faith in the divine Principle of Christian Science and led to an increasing understanding of God and man in His likeness. Sinus trouble, from which I had suffered as a girl, was gradually and completely overcome. Class teaching is another of my many blessings.
At one time over thirty years ago I was suffering intensely, and my fear was of a so-called incurable disease. I called a practitioner and told her about my condition and my fear. She took up work for me, and in a few days I was free from pain, and the complete physical healing took place in about three months.
These experiences and many more brought to me as never before the truth of the Principle of the Christ-cure which came to our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and which she so consecratedly, patiently, and lovingly gave to mankind and made practical through the many activities provided for in the Manual of The Mother Church.
Perfunctory service as a church member has been replaced by true, joyous work, and I can now see the meaning of a lively stone as mentioned in I Peter (2:5), "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."—, Wood side, California.
