The time has come when I can no longer withhold my written expression of gratitude for what Christian Science has done for me. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy states (p. 369), "The prophylactic and therapeutic (that is, the preventive and curative) arts belong emphatically to Christian Science, as would be readily seen, if psychology, or the Science of Spirit, God, was understood." It is particularly for this preventive art that I wish to give thanks.
As soon as Christian Science was presented to me, I bought the textbook and read it through. I knew at once that it was what I had always been searching for, but to my material way of thinking it was difficult to understand. Even so, one sentence which I loved stood out. It was on page 421: "There is no disease." To me, this thought was wonderful, and I accepted it completely. I began to attend a branch Church of Christ, Scientist, to study the Lesson-Sermons in the Christian Science Quarterly, and to read the periodicals.
At that time I had two small girls, and it was my heartfelt prayer that I might bring them up without recourse to materia medica in any form. To me, it was unnatural that children should be expected to have ailments as a matter of course. My study soon showed me the unwisdom of planting seedlings of disease in the unfolding thought of children by discussing diseases in the home.
