In Isaiah (35:4) we read, "Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not." Christian Science enabled me to understand why I need not fear. As a child I was always shy, fearful, and usually in poor health. When my mother became interested in Christian Science she replaced my medicines with the healing power of Truth, which I found to be far more efficacious than material remedies, and I turned to Truth with joy and increasing faith.
It was many years, however, before I was willing to identify myself with the Christian Science movement or to participate in its activities. Finally, in 1923, I joined The Mother Church and a branch church, but it was not until my parents had passed on that I vigorously started to work out my own salvation, impelled by gratitude and love for my Father-Mother God. I had class instruction and became active in church work, serving joyously on various committees and learning to use the truths that had been impressed upon my mind in class. At the end of the second winter of such activity in God's service I suddenly realized that the severe chronic colds which had formerly made every winter of my life miserable had not occurred during the preceding winter. The inertia and apathy that had claimed to be part of my thinking had disappeared, taking the physical discord with them. This was sixteen years ago, and the healing has been permanent.
Since then I have rejoiced in further proofs of progress. Problems still occur, for my perfection as the child of God is not always apparent to me, but I am very grateful that I have learned to see these difficulties not as burdens, but as opportunities whereby to rise higher in my thinking and to prove man's divine heritage of freedom, joy, harmony, and peace.
