Following the loss of my husband, I permitted erroneous thinking to make a most unhappy person of me. One day while I was talking with my sister, who was not a Christian Scientist but had read some of the authorized literature and had attended a Church of Christ, Scientist, a few times, she said to me, "I wish you would see a Christian Science practitioner." In a spirit of resignation I replied that I would, thinking that it could do me no harm and that if it would please my sister, nothing else would matter anyway.
In the classified section of a telephone directory I found the name of a practitioner who lived only a few blocks from me. I called her and made an appointment to see her. When I went to her home she listened very patiently and sympathetically to me as I told her that I had given up hope and was just waiting for death to relieve me of my miserable state of existence.
She talked to me very kindly and explained to me the truth of the situation. After lending me a copy of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, she told me that she would work for me in Christian Science. She said that she was sure that if I would study the textbook and watch my thinking, I would find relief from the fear and depression from which I was suffering and would regain the joy which God intends for all His children.
