Wearying of old theological beliefs and searching for a more satisfactory religion, my parents became students of Christian Science in my early childhood. Later my mother became a practitioner and with my father held the first Christian Science services in our community.
The prophylactic power of Christian Science has been very evident in my experience and in that of my family. I am increasingly grateful to God for the foundation my parents helped me to lay in my youth. It included a reverence and love for our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, and for the Church which she founded, and it minimized the beliefs of medical science and false theology. I enjoyed the protection from harm and the freedom from illness thus afforded, but my blessings were taken for granted at that time.
In later years social pleasures and a professional career as a singer filled my thought, and I did not seek to further my understanding of Christian Science until forced by circumstances to do so. Neither was my obligation to the Church which had blessed me so much realized. Finally a consecrated practitioner, whom I had asked for help and told of my former blessings, asked me what I had done for Christian Science. Shortly after this timely question I applied for branch church membership, was accepted, and became increasingly active in church work.
