"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path" (Ps. 119: 105). I am grateful that at a time of great physical distress, which led to financial difficulties as well, the light of truth in Christian Science was presented to me and that I finally accepted it.
As a child, taught by earnest Christian parents, I learned to love God. In my early teens I had the experience of conversion at a revival meeting, and I soon joined the orthodox church of my parents. But I never felt entirely satisfied with my religious experience. I read the Bible diligently, but found much that I did not understand. And I promised myself that sometime I would buy the best Bible commentary ever written and study it thoroughly.
While at a university during the influenza epidemic at the time of the first World War, I contracted a severe case of the disease. When the doctors at the infirmary could not check the fever and thought I was going to pass on, they sent for my brother. He had become a Christian Scientist, but that fact never entered my mind, although it was to mean much to me. When he left my room after only a few minutes' visit, the fever had broken.
