My introduction to Christian Science came through the Christian Science Sentinel, which I read in a home where I boarded. I liked the Sentinel and kept reading it. Later, while living with a family who had Christian Science literature. I picked up the textbook. Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, and read the marvelous chapter on Prayer. This healed me of a cold, and for some time I read the textbook at every opportunity.
The results were immediate. Many fears disappeared, and a sister called my attention to my freedom from colds and to the fact that I had discontinued excessive fiction reading. Christian Science made me happier and stronger than I had ever been. A fellow passenger on one of the hot trains of those earlier days touched my arm and remarked to me with surprise, ''Why, you are cool!"
I wish to relate two healings, one of which was instantaneous. While motoring with a party I struggled for two nights and one day with a severe digestive condition. Early the second morning, as we were about to leave the hotel in a city where I had lived many years, I called for help from a practitioner friend. What a joy it was to recognize her cheerful voice!
